On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Arno Töll wrote: > Thing is, you can't use the QA forwarder because it relies on your > source control field to learn about actual forwardings. If you would add > right that address, the result would be an infinite loop because you > would essentially forward mail to <package>@packages.debian.org to > <package>@packages.debian.org. I hope it is clear why this won't work.
Yeah, but this should be easily fixable... we can fix the script generating the alias to strip those emails (/srv/packages.debian.org/bin/build-maintainerdb). The problem lies elsewhere. The BTS, dak and many Debian services mail the address listed in the Maintainer field *and* send a copy to the PTS. This includes packages.debian.org which mail the Maintainer (not Uploaders) and the PTS. If you put @packages.debian.org as Maintainer, the flow of email is duplicated. Once via @packages.debian.org and once directly via the PTS. This is also fixable but it's less easy to do it in a clean way, except by teaching this special case to all services... which is painful. It's one of the reason which pushed me to start http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep2/ but alas I'm too busy to go forward with it currently. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Get the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
