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revision 253 by hertzog, Sat Jan 28 15:27:38 2012 UTC revision 254 by hertzog, Wed Feb 1 18:18:28 2012 UTC
# Line 169  In order to cleanly solve the problem of Line 169  In order to cleanly solve the problem of
169  rid of the hacks made everywhere to send a copy of the mails to the PTS,  rid of the hacks made everywhere to send a copy of the mails to the PTS,
170  packages would be (progressively) modified to indicate  packages would be (progressively) modified to indicate
171  “Maintainer: <source>@pkgmaint.debian.org” in their control file.  “Maintainer: <source>@pkgmaint.debian.org” in their control file.
172    The current content of the field would be moved to the “Uploaders” field.
173    
174  Until all packages have been converted, the PTS would forward copies of  Until all packages have been converted, the PTS would forward copies of
175  the mails to ensure that the new infrastucture can still be used for all  the mails to ensure that the new infrastucture can still be used for all
# Line 178  Using this intermediary address also sol Line 179  Using this intermediary address also sol
179  orphan their packages and are still listed as maintainers in many released  orphan their packages and are still listed as maintainers in many released
180  packages.  packages.
181    
182    QUESTION: It would be cleaner if DAK, the BTS, and all relevant services,
183    could stop sending mails to the Maintainer field, and would instead always
184    send the mail to the new infrastructure. That way we wouldn't need to
185    change the Maintainer field and there would be no transition period.
186    
187    The new infrastructure would then be configured with initial subscriptions
188    for emails listed in Maintainer fields (except for mailing lists, since
189    the infrastructure aims to replace them).
190    
191  ### Leveraging UDD  ### Leveraging UDD
192    
193  At least the PTS has been parsing Sources/Packages files by itself, as  At least the PTS has been parsing Sources/Packages files by itself, as

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