Re: Maintainer: Debian Commons

On Tue, 2026-05-12 at 15:24:52 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Tue, 12 May 2026 at 15:09:08 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> > I believe the recommended way to reach maintainers of a package is
> > [email protected] with "Package: FOO" for that package.  That's the
> > contact method that I monitor for "my" packages.
> 
> For bugs in your package, yes, but not every interaction with
> maintainers is a bug report against your package. For example if I'm
> reporting a bug in pkgconf or awk or something, which is related to
> how a gnulib module uses it but is not actually a gnulib bug, I
> might X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] to alert the maintainer(s) of
> gnulib that it's a failure mode that they're likely to see again, or
> ask whether they know a workaround, or similar.

Or for general coordination with maintainers of different packages
w/o having to lookup who is maintaining what.

Also even for bug related handling, when you reassign a bug from
package A to B, the BTS will only send a control acknowledgement
mail to B which is not very helpful (as it lacks all context), so to
make the reassign visible and keep the B maintainers in the loop the
expected convention is to always "Cc: [email protected]".

Thanks,
Guillem