On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 03:16:23PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 02:55:26PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Sep 2017, Axel Beckert wrote: > > > Alexander Wirt wrote: > > > > - Distribution lists for use in the Maintainer: field. We suggest > > > > that, with maybe some extra code, this use-case could be well served > > > > by the tracker.debian.org service for almost all purposes. > > > > > > Reading https://tracker.debian.org/docs/about.html#email-interface it > > > seems that the e-mail address <package>@tracker.debian.org is usable > > > not only for tracker-generated mails. > > > > Hum, that documentation is a bit outdated. What you have to use is > > actually dispatch+<package>@tracker.debian.org. But I would not want > > people to use this email address in Maintainer fields. > > > > Instead we should use <package>@packages.debian.org. But for this we > > need a lintian upload and a lintian backport to be installed on > > ftp-master: > > Er, that would create a mail loop. <package>@packages.debian.org > redirects to the data of the maintainer field. If you put that address > in the maintainer field, it redirects to itself, again and again and > again and again and...
My understanding is that Raphaël fixed that last year: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/webwml/packages.git/commit/?h=debian-master&id=5f4f27920e996e521d32dfb5a9693a09348d18d5 (linked from the bug report he referenced in his email that you quote) J. -- "Reality Or Nothing!" -- Cold Lazarus
