sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 10:26:16PM +1000, Brian May wrote: >> I consider this a bug; reports sent to <package>@packages.debian.org >> should go straight through to a maintainer or list of maintainers... > > yeah. i'd say it's bad practice to have the Maintainer > field of a package not go directly to the maintainer(s).
Some packages have the Maintainer: field set to a list, e.g. dpkg, apt, tetex, probably most java packages. > what > exactly does it gain the maintainer to have the mail moderated? Nothing; I'd say the list must be unmoderated. On the other hand, it's good that lots of spam to the lists is rejected, and there's probably a grey area. >> However, this appears to be sent to an upstream development mailing >> list, and it would appear my mail has not got through. > > are you sure? looks like an alioth list to me :) At least the alioth lists should be configured so that mail forwarded from the BTS, packages.debian.org, qa.debian.org and maybe others should be let through without manual action. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
