#648185 reportbug: ftp.debian.org RM bugs should get X-Debbugs-CC: maintainer

Package:
reportbug
Source:
reportbug
Submitter:
Didier Raboud
Date:
2026-07-02 17:37:13 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#648185#5
Date:
2011-11-09 12:54:31 UTC
From:
To:
Version: 6.3
Severity: normal

Hi,

while filing a removal bug (#648063), I noticed (afterwards) that I would
have liked it to explicitely CC the maintainers of said package. For this to
happen, I think that when filing "RM" bugs for source packages, reportbug
could automatically add those pseudo-headers:

X-Debbugs-CC: ${src:package}@packages.qa.debian.org
X-PTS-Approved: 1
Affects: src:${src:package}

(The X-PTS-Approved header is needed for the X-Debbugs-CC to work, as per
devref.)

That way, RM bugs not filed by the maintainer are brought to the maintainer's
ears by two channels: as a mail and as a bug appearing on the
http://bugs.debian.org/src:${src:package} page.

What do you think ?

Cheers,

OdyX
#648185#10
Date:
2022-10-26 06:40:35 UTC
From:
To:
Control: tags -1 + patch

I prepared the attached patch, which fixes this bug #648185 and also
bug #692995 about doing the same for release.d.o unblock bugs, as well
as adding the same headers for all other release.d.o package related
bugs. The release team haven't yet approved this approach though.
#648185#19
Date:
2022-10-30 02:30:00 UTC
From:
To:
Hi Debian FTP team,

In Debian bug #648185 it was proposed to set affects src:$PACKAGE
and XCC $PACKAGE@packages.d.o for ftp.d.o removal bugs.

I would like to apply this to ftp.d.o override request bugs too and
also any future package related ftp.d.o bugs too.

This would help maintainers and people reading the bugs web pages find
out about the removal, override and other requests.

The reportbug maintainers usually require changes to pseudo-package
bugs to be approved by the teams owning those pseudo-packages.

Would the above changes be acceptable to you?
#648185#24
Date:
2022-10-30 07:41:29 UTC
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To:
Sure, that looks reasonable to do.

Ansgar