Package: developers-reference Version: 3.4.14 Severity: wishlist Hi,
in the d-devel thread starting here [1] I learned that [email protected] is only sent to the bts and the submitter but *not* to the maintainer. This came as a surprise to me after reading section 5.8.2. of devref which currently says: > When responding to bugs, make sure that any discussion you have about > bugs is sent both to the original submitter of the bug, and to the bug > itself (e.g., <[email protected]>). If you're writing a new mail and > you don't remember the submitter email address, you can use the > <[email protected]> email to contact the submitter and to > record your mail within the bug log (that means you don't need to send > a copy of the mail to <[email protected]>). So the above paragraph suggests that sending an email to [email protected] and the submitter email is the same as sending it to [email protected] while in fact the latter will not send the mail to the package maintainer. The last sentence even says that I don't need to send a copy to [email protected] while in fact I should such that the maintainer of the package gets a copy. So this paragraph should either: - clarify that this course of action is only the right one for packages where *I* am the submitter (as in this cases there is no need to also send the email to myself) - or explicitly state to whom email is sent in each case Maybe the paragraph should be completely reformulated like this: > When responding to bugs, make sure that any discussion you have about > bugs is sent to the original submitter of the bug, the bug itself and > (if you are not the maintainer of the package) the maintainer. Sending > an email to [email protected] will send the mail to the maintainer > of the package and record your email with the bug log. If you don't > remember the submitter email address, you can use > [email protected] to also contact the submitter of the > bug. The latter address also records the email with the bug log, so if > you are the maintainer of the package in question, it is enough to > send the reply to [email protected]. Otherwise you should > include [email protected] so that you also reach the package > maintainer. Thanks! cheers, josch [1] http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150119131731.19991.54249.reportbug@hoothoot
