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Re: Bug reports for Uploaders

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On 04/03/2025 21:43, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 19:15:16 +0800, Blair Noctis <ncts@debian.org>
> wrote:
>> On 03/03/2025 01:40, Marc Haber wrote:
>>> Maintainer: Debian Adduser Developers <adduser@packages.debian.org>
>>> Maintainer: Debian Sudo Maintainers <sudo@packages.debian.org>
>>
>> Honestly I never understood how exactly @p.d.o addresses work.
>> Devref says it's "a simple email alias" that "provides a way to email the maintainer",
>> "whatever their individual email address (or addresses) may be",
>> but doesn't tell which kind of email addresses it forwards to.
>> Nor can I find info at other places, like wiki.d.o.
>> I always thought foo@p.d.o would forward to the Maintainer of foo,
>> but setting foo@p.d.o as the Maintainer of foo means forwarding to itself.
> 
> I think it mainly forwards to the mail addreses that have subscribed
> to the package in the Tracker. You have a "Subscribe" button in the
> top right corner of the Tracker package.

It's a likely explanation,
but then Uploaders continue to be ignored.

>> I'd also appreciate some (clearer) documentation of the @p.d.o addresses,
>> other than the vague mention in devref.
>> Policy doesn't seem to describe it,
>> nor did I succeed searching in wiki.d.o.
> 
> Does https://qa.pages.debian.net/distro-tracker/ help?

It only describes,
in the Email Messages section,
that the "contact" keyword forwards emails to _package_@packages.debian.org.
I don't see evidence it describes how the address itself works.

Thanks for the help,
though it seems further clarification can only come from p.d.o staff.

-- 
Sdrager,
Blair Noctis

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Bug#397761: Bug reports for Uploaders (was: Re #397761: bugs.debian.org: please forward bug reports to Uploaders also) Blair Noctis <ncts@debian.org> - 2025-03-02 18:10 +0100
  Re: Bug reports for Uploaders Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> - 2025-03-02 18:50 +0100
    Re: Bug reports for Uploaders Blair Noctis <ncts@debian.org> - 2025-03-04 12:20 +0100
      Re: Bug reports for Uploaders Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> - 2025-03-04 14:50 +0100
        Re: Bug reports for Uploaders Blair Noctis <ncts@debian.org> - 2025-03-04 18:40 +0100
          Re: Bug reports for Uploaders "Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> - 2025-03-04 19:50 +0100
            Re: Bug reports for Uploaders Blair Noctis <ncts@debian.org> - 2025-03-06 16:20 +0100
              Re: Bug reports for Uploaders Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> - 2025-03-10 11:40 +0100
                Re: Bug reports for Uploaders Blair Noctis <ncts@debian.org> - 2025-03-10 13:40 +0100
                Re: Bug reports for Uploaders Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> - 2025-03-10 19:10 +0100
  Bug#397761: Bug reports for Uploaders (was: Re #397761: bugs.debian.org: please forward bug reports to Uploaders also) Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2025-03-02 21:00 +0100
    Bug#397761: Bug reports for Uploaders Blair Noctis <ncts@debian.org> - 2025-03-03 10:20 +0100
  Bug#397761: Bug reports for Uploaders (was: Re #397761: bugs.debian.org: please forward bug reports to Uploaders also) Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT> - 2025-03-02 22:00 +0100
  Re: Bug reports for Uploaders (was: Re #397761: bugs.debian.org:  please forward bug reports to Uploaders also) NoisyCoil <noisycoil@disroot.org> - 2025-03-02 23:00 +0100
  Bug#397761: Bug reports for Uploaders (was: Re #397761: bugs.debian.org: please forward bug reports to Uploaders also) Maytham Alsudany <maytham@debian.org> - 2025-03-03 01:50 +0100
  Re: Bug reports for Uploaders (was: Re #397761: bugs.debian.org:  please forward bug reports to Uploaders also) Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de> - 2025-03-03 18:50 +0100
    Re: Bug reports for Uploaders Blair Noctis <ncts@debian.org> - 2025-03-04 12:20 +0100
      Re: Bug reports for Uploaders Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2025-03-04 13:40 +0100
        Re: Bug reports for Uploaders Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> - 2025-03-04 14:50 +0100
      Re: Bug reports for Uploaders Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> - 2025-03-04 17:50 +0100
      Re: Bug reports for Uploaders Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de> - 2025-03-04 17:50 +0100
        Re: Bug reports for Uploaders Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2025-03-04 18:20 +0100
        Re: Bug reports for Uploaders Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2025-03-04 18:20 +0100
  Re: Bug reports for Uploaders (was: Re #397761: bugs.debian.org:  please forward bug reports to Uploaders also) Jeremy Bícha <jeremy.bicha@canonical.com> - 2025-03-05 17:50 +0100
  Bug#397761: Bug reports for Uploaders (was: Re #397761: bugs.debian.org: please forward bug reports to Uploaders also) Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2025-03-06 05:20 +0100

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