Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-05-02 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:27:46PM +0100, James Troup wrote: > Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What I am suggesting is that katie has a list of such cases (although > > I'm not proposing a particular format): > > >From my point of view, such information would ideally be: > > o

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-05-01 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Tue, 01 May 2001, Brian May wrote: > > "Henrique" == Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Henrique> Fetchmail is not the best tool for dealing with the > Henrique> Debian developer mail accounts, plain and simple. > > Why not? Because there isn't a IMAP or POP3 server

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-05-01 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:27:46PM +0100, James Troup wrote: > Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What I am suggesting is that katie has a list of such cases (although > > I'm not proposing a particular format): > > From my point of view, such information would ideally be: > > o n

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-05-01 Thread Brian May
> "Henrique" == Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Henrique> Fetchmail is not the best tool for dealing with the Henrique> Debian developer mail accounts, plain and simple. Why not? (not trying to argue here, just genuinely curious). I would have though that fetchmail-s

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-05-01 Thread Brian May
> "Julian" == Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Julian> Subscribe with @d.o address. Filter the mail on master. Julian> Forward anything you want to see to your regular email Julian> address, leaving nothing on master. Now why didn't I think of that? ;-) In the past, I s

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-05-01 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 09:17:21AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > "Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Matt> Unless, of course, you can do your filtering on the mail > Matt> server, as I do. > > In my case, my MTA server is on the wrong side of my permanent > 28.8kbps

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-05-01 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:35:56AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > > No; at present, we only have to enter the correct entry in the > > changelog, keeping "Debian policy list " > > in the control file Maintainer field. Then all of our uploads are > > considered NMUs and we have to close the bugs manual

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:50:59PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Previously Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > But I'm *not* the maintainer; I'm one of a group of maintainers. If > > > we do this, then every time one of us uploads, we need to change the >

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Rahul Jain wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 09:06:01PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > The client side of fetchmail will (by default) feed each message into your > > local MTA for delivery, but you'll have to figure a way to get the mail > > into it > > from the remote mailbo

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread Rahul Jain
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 09:06:01PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > The client side of fetchmail will (by default) feed each message into your > local MTA for delivery, but you'll have to figure a way to get the mail into > it > from the remote mailbox without IMAP or POP services (which I don't thi

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 09:17:21AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > "Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Matt> Unless, of course, you can do your filtering on the mail > Matt> server, as I do. > > In my case, my MTA server is on the wrong side of my permanent > 28.8kbp

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread Brian May
> "Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matt> Unless, of course, you can do your filtering on the mail Matt> server, as I do. In my case, my MTA server is on the wrong side of my permanent 28.8kbps modem link. Of course, I could make master.debian.org my server, too. J

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread James Troup
Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What I am suggesting is that katie has a list of such cases (although > I'm not proposing a particular format): >From my point of view, such information would ideally be: o not centrally controlled, but package/maintainer(s) controlled[0] o trivial

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:50:59PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Julian Gilbey wrote: > > But I'm *not* the maintainer; I'm one of a group of maintainers. If > > we do this, then every time one of us uploads, we need to change the > > maintainer name in the control file. > > You nee

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Julian Gilbey wrote: > But I'm *not* the maintainer; I'm one of a group of maintainers. If > we do this, then every time one of us uploads, we need to change the > maintainer name in the control file. You needed to do that anyway. The problem you have is that dinstall has no way to fig

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 05:35:54AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > > I've got another request, but I reckon it's a katie one: it would be > > really nice if the Maintainer could be a mailing list (eg, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and that katie would recognise one of a small > > list of names and emails for t

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 04:25:16AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have just added support to debbugs in cvs, and on master, so that the > > maintainer address for a package can be overriden. This allows the real > > maintainer to be someone diffe

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 04:25:16AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have just added support to debbugs in cvs, and on master, so that the > maintainer address for a package can be overriden. This allows the real > maintainer to be someone different than the person or list that gets the bugs. >

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:51:45PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 02:36:21AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > > Unless, of course, you can do your filtering on the mail server, as I do. > > and how many isps allow this? Some IMAP servers support server-side filtering, wh

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 03:40:56PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > "Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Matt> I agree that a system like this would be nice, but until > Matt> that day, you can subscribe to debian-bugs-dist and use > Matt> procmail to filter everythi

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 02:36:21AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Unless, of course, you can do your filtering on the mail server, as I do. and how many isps allow this? -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpnnXUWcAbZ4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 03:40:56PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > "Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Matt> I agree that a system like this would be nice, but until > Matt> that day, you can subscribe to debian-bugs-dist and use > Matt> procmail to filter everyth

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread Brian May
> "Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matt> I agree that a system like this would be nice, but until Matt> that day, you can subscribe to debian-bugs-dist and use Matt> procmail to filter everything but packages you are Matt> interested in. The configuration s

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-29 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:31:19PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > It would be great to have an automated system where one could subscribe to > bugs for a particular package without having all the hassles of filling a > bug and waiting an answer. And having something automated would allow me > to

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 04:25:16AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait: > This is useful, when the real maintainer is doing the upload, and dinstall > compares the uploader to the real maintainer, but an entire list of people > should actually get the bug reports. It would be great to have an automa

debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-24 Thread adam
I have just added support to debbugs in cvs, and on master, so that the maintainer address for a package can be overriden. This allows the real maintainer to be someone different than the person or list that gets the bugs. This is useful, when the real maintainer is doing the upload, and dinstall