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Re: Bug reports for Uploaders

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On 05/03/2025 02:45, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Wed, 2025-03-05 at 01:32 +0800, Blair Noctis wrote:
>> On 04/03/2025 21:43, Marc Haber wrote:
>>> On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 19:15:16 +0800, Blair Noctis <ncts@debian.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> 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.
> [...]
>> though it seems further clarification can only come from p.d.o staff.
> 
> "Staff" is a weird term to use in free software contexts. :-)

p.d.o is a service, after all ;)

> In any case you're looking for
> https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/packages/-/blob/debian-master/bin/build-maintainerdb

Thanks, this seems to be the canonical source of an answer.
Though with my limited Perl knowledge,
I can only see that it
0. reads an override file,
1. searches through the indices/Maintainers file in an archive,
whose naming presumably means the Maintainer field of packages,
2. records found email, but ignores when it ends with @p.d.o or @tracker.d.o,
3. writes remaining email, along with tracker dispatch address, for each package.

So IIUC, @p.d.o address forwards to
1. the Maintainer if it's not again a @p.d.o, nor @tracker.d.o,
2. tracker subscribers.

So if the "staff" agrees,
we can make @p.d.o addresses forward also to Uploaders,
thus with @p.d.o address as Maintainer,
also forwarding bug reports to Uploaders,
achieving the goal.

Aside: I'm amused, and horrified at the same time,
that such a maintainer "database" is a plain text file.

-- 
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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