Bug#479953: Mail headers for automated package maintenance emails

2008-05-12 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > b. Every tool sending automated mail to Debian Developers should add >headers of the form > > X-Debian: $TOOL > X-Debian-Package: $PACKAGE It's probably too late, but wouldn't have been better to use the following instead? X-Debian-Tool:

Re: Mail headers for automated package maintenance emails

2008-05-12 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:44:24PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 12 May 2008, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > > > Afaiui dehs *only* sends emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > > and the question was whether the pts only adds the header to e-mails > > > generated by its own scripts or also to stuff

Re: Mail headers for automated package maintenance emails

2008-05-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 12 May 2008, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > > Afaiui dehs *only* sends emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > and the question was whether the pts only adds the header to e-mails > > generated by its own scripts or also to stuff received by mail. (I > > have no idea whether this even a correct dichot

Re: Mail headers for automated package maintenance emails

2008-05-11 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 09:56:46AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Thijs Kinkhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 11 May 2008 00:56, Raphael Geissert wrote: > >> Also for messages coming from other sources, i.e. dehs? > > > Yes, the idea is that such mails have uniform headers. There are

Re: Mail headers for automated package maintenance emails

2008-05-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 11 May 2008, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Sunday 11 May 2008 15:07, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > The PTS add those headers to all mails that it forwards. So there's no > > need to change anything to scripts that only send mails through the PTS. > > How would the PTS know to add a X-Debian: DE

Re: Mail headers for automated package maintenance emails

2008-05-11 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sunday 11 May 2008 15:07, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > The PTS add those headers to all mails that it forwards. So there's no > need to change anything to scripts that only send mails through the PTS. How would the PTS know to add a X-Debian: DEHS header to that mail, does it have a list of all to

Re: Mail headers for automated package maintenance emails

2008-05-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 11 May 2008, Andreas Metzler wrote: > >> Just want to know if I have to make dehs add those headers. > > > "have to" sounds like it's a great ordeal ;-) But yes, please. > > Afaiui dehs *only* sends emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED], > and the question was whether the pts only adds the header t

Re: Mail headers for automated package maintenance emails

2008-05-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
Thijs Kinkhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 11 May 2008 00:56, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> Also for messages coming from other sources, i.e. dehs? > Yes, the idea is that such mails have uniform headers. There are no "other" > sources: it works best if every tool that sends automated ma

Re: Mail headers for automated package maintenance emails

2008-05-11 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sunday 11 May 2008 00:56, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Also for messages coming from other sources, i.e. dehs? Yes, the idea is that such mails have uniform headers. There are no "other" sources: it works best if every tool that sends automated mails to Debian package maintainers uses those head

Re: Mail headers for automated package maintenance emails

2008-05-10 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 10 May 2008, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > b. Every tool sending automated mail to Debian Developers should add >headers of the form > > X-Debian: $TOOL > X-Debian-Package: $PACKAGE The BTS already does the latter using X-Debian-PR-Package: $PACKAGE, with mails regarding multiple p

Re: Mail headers for automated package maintenance emails

2008-05-10 Thread Raphael Geissert
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > The PTS now provides those headers as well. > > X-Debian: PTS > X-Debian-Package: Also for messages coming from other sources, i.e. dehs? Just want to know if I have to make dehs add those headers. > > Cheers, Cheers, Raphael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Mail headers for automated package maintenance emails

2008-05-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 10 May 2008, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > >The X-Debian-Package: header can be omitted if it is not possible to > >name a specific source package for a mail, like when the mail is > >about multiple packages. > > One could consider several X-Debian-Package headers when it is abou

Re: Mail headers for automated package maintenance emails

2008-05-10 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sat, 10 May 2008, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > X-Debian: $TOOL > X-Debian-Package: $PACKAGE > [...] > As a starting point, and as one tool generating lots of mail to > maintainers, DAK is already generating both headers, other tools > hopefully follow soon. The PTS now provides those

Re: Mail headers for automated package maintenance emails

2008-05-09 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:45:49AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > b. Every tool sending automated mail to Debian Developers should add >headers of the form > X-Debian: $TOOL > X-Debian-Package: $PACKAGE >The X-Debian-Package: header can be omitted if it is not possible to >n