Bug#314188: Announce of the upcoming NMU for the gnome-applets package

[Tobias Toedter]

On Wednesday 01 November 2006 08:10, Christian Perrier wrote:
> >  I'm afraid I didn't get this notice, nor did the bug do.  I'm only
> >  maintaining gnome-applets via the PTS subscription, so if you mailed
> >  the Maintainer: directly, this isn't enough.  I think mailing the
> >  @packages.debian.org would have reached me, but I'm not 100% sure
> >  anymore now.
>
> The @p.d.o address is the one getting the first mail ("intent to NMU")
> and the second one, 7 days later ("announce of the upcoming NMU"). The
> mail is sent with "X-PTS-Approved" headers.
>
> This is not the first time that I see that, indeed, mails sent to
> <package>@p.d.o do not easily reach package maintainers. There is
> still something that I'm probably missing, here.

Hi,

as I understand it, there is a subtle difference between the $PACKAGE at p.d.o 
and $PACKAGE at p.qa.d.o (note the additional .qa-part!) mail aliases.

The @p.d.o alias just forwards the mail to the address listed 
as "Maintainer:" in debian/control. You don't need the "X-PTS-Approved:" 
header for that alias, it'll just forward anything received for the alias. 
Note, however, that this does *not* include people subscribed to the 
package via the PTS, nor anyone listed as "Uploader:".

The @p.qa.d.o alias, on the other hand, does seem to require 
the "X-PTS-Approved:" header, otherwise the mail will not be forwarded. If 
the mail gets forwarded, it'll include the people who are subscribed to the 
package's PTS interface with the "default" keyword.

Regards,
Tobias

-- 
Tobias Toedter   | "I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad
Hamburg, Germany | to make an exception." -- Groucho Marx
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