Bug#479953: marked as done (uniform field for automated package maintenance email messages)

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regarding uniform field for automated package maintenance email messages
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• Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 11:52:59 +0200
• From: Peter Eisentraut <petere@xxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: uniform header for automated package maintenance emails

Package: general
Severity: wishlist

With all the (helpful) email that a package maintainer gets nowadays, BTS, 
PTS, Dak, DDPOMail robot, BTS link, etc., it becomes ever weirder to just 
filter them into appropriate mail folders.  To illustrate that, here are 
procmail rules that I have assembled over time:

* ^X-Debian-PR-Message:
* ^X-Katie:
* ^X-PTS-
* ^From:.*(installer|katie|dak)@((ftp-master|spohr)\.debian\.org|backports\.org)
* ^From: DDPOMail robot <lucas-ddpomail@debian\.org>
* ^X-BTS-Link:

I think it would be very nice to press these into some common form, such as

X-Debian: BTS
X-Debian: DAK
X-Debian: PTS
X-Debian: BTS-link

or alternatively

X-Debian-BTS: $moreinfo
X-Debian-DAK: $moreinfo
....

Maybe there is a quasi-standard for constructing these X- headers.

Comments?

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• Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 22:27:03 +0200
• From: Joerg Jaspert <joerg@xxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: Mail headers for automated package maintenance emails

On 11383 March 1977, Peter S. Galbraith wrote:
>>      X-Debian: $TOOL
>>      X-Debian-Package: $PACKAGE
> It's probably too late, but wouldn't have been better to use the
> following instead?
>  X-Debian-Tool: $TOOL
>  X-Debian-Package: $PACKAGE

The -Tool is pretty redundant.

(And also closing this bug as its implemented)

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bye, Joerg
I read the DUMP and agree to it.

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