Re: Maintainer field of openjdk-8

Thorsten Glaser <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.java
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 4 Jul 2023, Vincent Prat wrote:

> Lately, we have been receiving a significant number of automatic emails
> concerning openjdk-8.
> This is because this diffusion list is in the Maintainer field of the package.

This is how I understoof team-maintained packages to be handled.
Especially how else are people supposed to get the bug traffic.

> I remember that a few years ago, I had put the list as the Maintainer of one of
> my packages and I was asked to set it to
> [email protected] instead.

AIUI Alioth lists are no longer maintained, deprecated and should
especially not be used in new places.

bye,
//mirabilos
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