Hi,
I think the software that is used by ftpmaster is dak but I think I can
not really file a bug report about this. So asking here how to put my
wish into BTS - and may be discussing here whether its a sensible wish
or not.
It happens from time to time that a package got rejected and the reasons
are given in the rejection mail. Unfortunately this mail might be
accidently deleted or somehow otherwise from developers inbox. I'm
team maintaining all my packages but I have observed cases where even
the mailing list archive was lacking the rejection mail. Moreover its
sometimes really hard to find there. (I have the impression that
web search engines do not reliably indexing Debian mailing list archives
any more - I have even tested buy putting in site:lists.debian.org and
a unique string in some mail which was not found by the market leading
web search engine.)
I was told that DDs can review the rejection mails at
coccia.debian.org:/srv/ftp-master.debian.org/queue/reject
but this was somehow hidden knowledge to me and works only for DDs.
Even when finding the mail in the web archive sometimes there is a
following discussion about the issue where different parties are
involved. Forcing readers to follow all those links is not very
convenient.
My idea for a solution is that if the according WNPP bug is CCed
by the rejection mail it can be
1. easily found at a convenient place
2. easily referenced for further discussion
3. reviewed by everybody not only DDs (we do not hide
problems, right?)
Since it might be extra work for ftpmaster which I'd like to avoid I
could imagine that dak could parse d/changelog for a WNPP bug that is
closed by the upload and add it automatically to the mail header.
So how can I file this bug report properly - in case at least one
or two other people agree with me that this suggestion is helpful
and sensible.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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