On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.07.17.2113 +0200]: > > > So this is a script to be run periodically? > > > > Yes. > > I am beginning to like the idea less, though I understand the cause. > > Since the PTS knows about maintainers and co-maintainers already, > anyway, and updates this information, wouldn't it make more sense to > simply have it send mail to <source>@pts to the subscribers and all > (co-)maintainers, making sure each address is only ever used once? > I see no excuse why a (co-)maintainer would not want to get PTS mail > and expecting co-maintainers to sign up on the PTS was always > a hassle anyway.
There are dozens of reasons for not wanting to do that. The first one is that in many cases mailing lists are subscribed to the PTS. If the Uploader are following the ML, it's enough. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
