Package: lists.debian.org, bugs.debian.org Tags: d-i The goal in the title of the BR is probably not completely possible, but we should do better than we do currently.
Main problem in practice is the difference in size of mails that are accepted. For the BTS Don tells me this is 60MB, while the mailing lists by default only accept 102 kB. For packages that are team maintained and where the maintainer address is a Debian mailing list, this means that when a user submits a BR with a large attachment (an uncompressed syslog with debugging info, or a screenshot), he will receive an acknowledgement from the BTS with the message that it has been forwarded to the maintainer, but the maintainer will never actually see the message because it is filtered by the mailing lists. The limit of 102.4 kB (a strange limit, was possibly 1024 kB intended?) was way to low for debian-boot, so it has already been raised to 512 kB, but we're still occasionally lose mails when users forget to compress attachments (even if we do ask them to), as for example with [1]. The solution is probably a combination of the following: - make the BTS not accept really huge attachments, but inform the user he should either compress it or publish it somewhere and link - maybe make the BTS automatically split out attachments larger than what's accepted by the mailing lists and add a link instead - ensure that the mailing lists always accept mails forwarded by the BTS Cheers, FJP [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=474346#27 (~750 kB)
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