<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#2e3436" link="#2a76c6" vlink="#2e3436"><div>Hi Paul,</div><div><br></div><div>On Sat, 2018-06-09 at 20:51 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><pre>[resend to the list instead of the owner]
On 24-05-18 09:51, Paul Gevers wrote:
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Hi all,
I want to start updating the Maintainer e-mail address in our packages
(discussion triggered due to a new version of Lazarus; working on it). I
actually want to use the tracker.debian.org address associated with the
freepascal team¹. I noticed that currently I am the only one on that
team (I never advertised that I created the team). Using
</blockquote></pre></blockquote><div>Yes indeed I don't remember anything about this. Any way you are no longer alone.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><pre><blockquote type="cite">tracker.debian.org has multiple advantages over using this list:
1) tracker.debian.org enables you to subscribe to the pieces of
information you want. E.g. one could disable automatically generated
messages during holidays, while not missing out on human conversations
on the list, while during normal periods one enables everything.
</blockquote></pre></blockquote><div>OK, even if I don't think I'm going to use this feature. I prefer unread mail as I know I'll read them one day.</div><blockquote type="cite"><pre><blockquote type="cite">
2) currently bug and upload information is stored multiple times on the
debian infrastructure. Using tracker enables us to reduce the
multiplication.
</blockquote></pre></blockquote><div>Nice feature</div><blockquote type="cite"><pre><blockquote type="cite">
3) Encouraging people to use the tracker is the way forward to in the
end remove the need to store meta-data in the debian packages, which
comes up every so often in discussions that that is something we should
get rid of.
</blockquote></pre></blockquote><div>I'm not sure I got the point, but I like the new tracker and used it since the beginning.</div><blockquote type="cite"><pre><blockquote type="cite">
What do you think?
</blockquote></pre></blockquote><div>I'm OK with your proposal.</div><blockquote type="cite"><pre><blockquote type="cite">
Paul
PS1: we can change the team slug (the URL and local part of the e-mail)
if people don't think "freepascal" is the right slug. I recommend
against putting "team" in the slug, because the proposed e-mail address
for the Maintainer field is team+<slug>@tracker.debian.org
</blockquote></pre></blockquote><div>I think we shall remove "Free" and keep "Pascal". Most of projects are Pascal projects and are not related to Free Pascal as they may compile using Delphi or probably any Delphi compatible pascal compiler.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><pre><blockquote type="cite">PS2: regardless of the outcome of this discussion, I recommend people to
subscribe (with the right keywords enabled/disabled) to the team.
</blockquote></pre></blockquote><div>Already done.</div><blockquote type="cite"><pre><blockquote type="cite">
¹ <a href="https://tracker.debian.org/teams/freepascal/">https://tracker.debian.org/teams/freepascal/</a><br></blockquote></pre><pre></pre></blockquote><div><pre>-- <br></pre><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre;">Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir</span></div></body></html>