On Mon, 03 Mar 2025, Blair Noctis wrote:n > Dan Armstrong (don) wontfix'd it after stating that, quote: > > If the maintainer is not given as a mailing list, then the uploaders > > should all subscribe to the PTS for a given package. > > and > > > The problem is that if I start sending mails to Uploaders: in addition > > to the Maintainer, there is no way to opt out of it. > > > > It's far easier to subscribe to the pts and unsubscribe if Maintainer > > is not a list. [It should at least be an address that goes to a real > > person.]
This is still correct. Because the way subscriptions in debbugs is implemented isn't complete, there's no way to allow people to opt in or opt out of messages both for submitters, uploaders, or random bystanders. The PTS solves this to some degree, but actually fixing this correctly requires a level of code change to the current version of debbugs which isn't likely to happen any time soon. [This is a design issue which I hope to eventually address, but my track record here is really bad.] -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Personally, I think my choice in the mostest-superlative-computer wars has to be the HP-48 series of calculators. They'll run almost anything. And if they can't, while I'll just plug a Linux box into the serial port and load up the HP-48 VT-100 emulator. -- Jeff Dege, jd...@winternet.com
