On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 03:28:44PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:41:36AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 08:04:39AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > > > Can these please be turned off by maintainer (debian-qa@lists.debian.org > > > or [EMAIL PROTECTED]), not by package? New packages become > > > maintained by QA all the time. > > > > I have not add this feature now. > > > > But I read this list and if I find a notification, I add this package > > on the server list myself. > > That's very unreliable, and I'll bet you'll often miss them. That still > leaves us with being spammed by the first one for each package, too, and > debian-qa gets enough mail when a package enters its maintainership.
yes you are right... > > Where can I get a uptoday list of all qa packages? > > Search the Packages files for either possible maintainer address. I > strongly encourage you to add support for NONOTIFICATION > [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead, though, as that would alleviate a lot of > people's annoyances with the ddts - from a brief look at the code, it > looks like a matter of adding the maintainer address to the database > plus a couple of extra lines of parsing code. > > Also, remember that if you won't do this you have to take packages out > of the no-notification list again when they stop being maintained by QA. > In general your system doesn't cope very well when maintainers change, > because the preference is almost always on a per-maintainer basis rather > than on a per-package basis. ok, this is a 'right way' of the nonotification. I will code this... Gruss Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux Koeln ist wie Unix, Duesseldorf eher wie DOS.
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