[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#908065: BTS seems to send bugs to old maintainer of a package but displays new one correctly (Was: Bug#908065: r-cran-adegraphics: autopkgtest regression: dependency versions not properly specified)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 10:31:34PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
> 
> > BTW, do you have any idea why that bug is filed against Debian Med
> > packaging list[1] while the maintainer of the package is
> > r-pkg-team at alioth-lists.debian.net?
> 
> tracker.d.o?

Hmmm, why should tracker.d.o keep a record where a package was
maintained *before* instead of just taking the Maintainer field of the
current package?  At least the *rendered* information of tracker.d.o[1]
mentions Debian R Packages Maintainers.

The result of this wrong choice of team somehow hides the todo item for
dh-r from the people who should care (I'll forward a summary, but would
like to understand this issue first).  The BTS says on the bug page:

   Maintainer for src:r-cran-adegraphics is Debian R Packages Maintainers <r-pkg-team at alioth-lists.debian.net>

but it sends the e-mail in contrast to this to debian-med-packaging[3].

Any idea why BTS sends the e-mail to the maintainer that is mentioned
for instance in the package in stable rather than the one in unstable
(which is correctly parsed obviously)?

Kind regards

       Andreas.

[1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/r-cran-adegraphics
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/908065
[3] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/debian-med-packaging/2018-September/065335.html

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