Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-23 Thread Steve M. Robbins
I use b...@packages.debian.org to contact the maintainer of "blah". I use this to alert maintainers of reverse build-deps when I do something drastic to one of the libraries I maintain. I'm open to other options, of course. What is the recommended practice for this scenario? Thanks, -Steve si

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-23 Thread Frank Küster
Stephen Gran wrote: > day from elsewhere. I haven't done an exhaustive survey, but it seems > pretty clear so far that the domain does not get any significant amount > of legitimate mail from machines other than the debian.org hosts. > > If this is actually the case, I'd like to close the domain

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-23 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Jonathan Wiltshire said: >> The debian-l10n-english team, and perhaps others, use this domain to >> keep the maintainer in the loop during Smith English-language reviews >> and the subsequent translations. > > This one time, at band camp, Adeodato

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Stephen Gran wrote: > It sounds like the service should probably stay open. I would have been > happy to restrict something that is only a spam attractor, but if it's > more than that, than I'm happy people find it a useful service. If the > teams who do use it think it can still be useful and b

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 23 May 2009, Artur R. Czechowski wrote: > What about requiring a GPG signed email by key in developers or > maintainers keyring? As others have already mentioned, the addresses are also intended as contact point for upstream developers and users, i.e. people who don't have such a key

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-23 Thread Artur R. Czechowski
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:30:03PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > If this is actually the case, I'd like to close the domain down to only > accept mail from other debian.org machines. If it's not, I'd like to work > with people who do use it to either make it possible to send their mail > from debia

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-23 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:30:03PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > Hello all, > > So I've looked through a few weeks of mail logs to packages.debian.org, > and it looks like it collects some useful mail from automated scripts > on various debian.org machines (primarily ries), and about 1000 spams a >

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-23 Thread Paul Slootman
On Fri 22 May 2009, Stephen Gran wrote: > > So I've looked through a few weeks of mail logs to packages.debian.org, > and it looks like it collects some useful mail from automated scripts > on various debian.org machines (primarily ries), and about 1000 spams a > day from elsewhere. I haven't don