Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-05-02 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:27:46PM +0100, James Troup wrote: > Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What I am suggesting is that katie has a list of such cases (although > > I'm not proposing a particular format): > > >From my point of view, such information would ideally be: > > o

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-05-01 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Tue, 01 May 2001, Brian May wrote: > > "Henrique" == Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Henrique> Fetchmail is not the best tool for dealing with the > Henrique> Debian developer mail accounts, plain and simple. > > Why not? Because there isn't a IMAP or POP3 server

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-05-01 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:27:46PM +0100, James Troup wrote: > Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What I am suggesting is that katie has a list of such cases (although > > I'm not proposing a particular format): > > From my point of view, such information would ideally be: > > o n

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-05-01 Thread Brian May
> "Henrique" == Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Henrique> Fetchmail is not the best tool for dealing with the Henrique> Debian developer mail accounts, plain and simple. Why not? (not trying to argue here, just genuinely curious). I would have though that fetchmail-s

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-05-01 Thread Brian May
> "Julian" == Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Julian> Subscribe with @d.o address. Filter the mail on master. Julian> Forward anything you want to see to your regular email Julian> address, leaving nothing on master. Now why didn't I think of that? ;-) In the past, I s

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-05-01 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 09:17:21AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > "Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Matt> Unless, of course, you can do your filtering on the mail > Matt> server, as I do. > > In my case, my MTA server is on the wrong side of my permanent > 28.8kbps

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-05-01 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:35:56AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > > No; at present, we only have to enter the correct entry in the > > changelog, keeping "Debian policy list " > > in the control file Maintainer field. Then all of our uploads are > > considered NMUs and we have to close the bugs manual

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:50:59PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Previously Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > But I'm *not* the maintainer; I'm one of a group of maintainers. If > > > we do this, then every time one of us uploads, we need to change the >

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Rahul Jain wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 09:06:01PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > The client side of fetchmail will (by default) feed each message into your > > local MTA for delivery, but you'll have to figure a way to get the mail > > into it > > from the remote mailbo

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread Rahul Jain
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 09:06:01PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > The client side of fetchmail will (by default) feed each message into your > local MTA for delivery, but you'll have to figure a way to get the mail into > it > from the remote mailbox without IMAP or POP services (which I don't thi

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 09:17:21AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > "Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Matt> Unless, of course, you can do your filtering on the mail > Matt> server, as I do. > > In my case, my MTA server is on the wrong side of my permanent > 28.8kbp

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread Brian May
> "Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matt> Unless, of course, you can do your filtering on the mail Matt> server, as I do. In my case, my MTA server is on the wrong side of my permanent 28.8kbps modem link. Of course, I could make master.debian.org my server, too. J

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread James Troup
Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What I am suggesting is that katie has a list of such cases (although > I'm not proposing a particular format): >From my point of view, such information would ideally be: o not centrally controlled, but package/maintainer(s) controlled[0] o trivial

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:50:59PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Julian Gilbey wrote: > > But I'm *not* the maintainer; I'm one of a group of maintainers. If > > we do this, then every time one of us uploads, we need to change the > > maintainer name in the control file. > > You nee

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Julian Gilbey wrote: > But I'm *not* the maintainer; I'm one of a group of maintainers. If > we do this, then every time one of us uploads, we need to change the > maintainer name in the control file. You needed to do that anyway. The problem you have is that dinstall has no way to fig

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 05:35:54AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > > I've got another request, but I reckon it's a katie one: it would be > > really nice if the Maintainer could be a mailing list (eg, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and that katie would recognise one of a small > > list of names and emails for t

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 04:25:16AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have just added support to debbugs in cvs, and on master, so that the > > maintainer address for a package can be overriden. This allows the real > > maintainer to be someone diffe

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 04:25:16AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have just added support to debbugs in cvs, and on master, so that the > maintainer address for a package can be overriden. This allows the real > maintainer to be someone different than the person or list that gets the bugs. >

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:51:45PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 02:36:21AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > > Unless, of course, you can do your filtering on the mail server, as I do. > > and how many isps allow this? Some IMAP servers support server-side filtering, wh

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 03:40:56PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > "Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Matt> I agree that a system like this would be nice, but until > Matt> that day, you can subscribe to debian-bugs-dist and use > Matt> procmail to filter everythi

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 02:36:21AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Unless, of course, you can do your filtering on the mail server, as I do. and how many isps allow this? -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpnnXUWcAbZ4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 03:40:56PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > "Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Matt> I agree that a system like this would be nice, but until > Matt> that day, you can subscribe to debian-bugs-dist and use > Matt> procmail to filter everyth

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-30 Thread Brian May
> "Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matt> I agree that a system like this would be nice, but until Matt> that day, you can subscribe to debian-bugs-dist and use Matt> procmail to filter everything but packages you are Matt> interested in. The configuration s

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-29 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:31:19PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > It would be great to have an automated system where one could subscribe to > bugs for a particular package without having all the hassles of filling a > bug and waiting an answer. And having something automated would allow me > to

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-04-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 04:25:16AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait: > This is useful, when the real maintainer is doing the upload, and dinstall > compares the uploader to the real maintainer, but an entire list of people > should actually get the bug reports. It would be great to have an automa