Mail headers for automated package maintenance emails

[Joerg Jaspert-2]

Hi,

following a suggestion from Bug #479953[1] there are two new headers defined
for automated package maintenance emails, to make it easier for
Developers to filter mail from all the various tools in Debian sending
mail.

The headers follow the definition in the following few points:

a. Every tool can add X-whatever headers as it sees fit, but do not
   bloat the mails unneccesarily.

b. Every tool sending automated mail to Debian Developers should add
   headers of the form

     X-Debian: $TOOL
     X-Debian-Package: $PACKAGE

   and so clearly mark that it is an automagic generated mail by
   $TOOL and about $PACKAGE. Every bit more information, like what
   script exactly did generate the mail, should be in seperate
   X-whatever headers or the mail body.

   The X-Debian-Package: header can be omitted if it is not possible to
   name a specific source package for a mail, like when the mail is
   about multiple packages.


As a starting point, and as one tool generating lots of mail to
maintainers, DAK is already generating both headers, other tools
hopefully follow soon.


[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=479953

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[Lionel Elie Mamane-2]

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:45:49AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote:

> b. Every tool sending automated mail to Debian Developers should add
>    headers of the form

>      X-Debian: $TOOL
>      X-Debian-Package: $PACKAGE

>    The X-Debian-Package: header can be omitted if it is not possible to
>    name a specific source package for a mail, like when the mail is
>    about multiple packages.

One could consider several X-Debian-Package headers when it is about
multiple packages, or a list of packages in a single header.

--
Lionel


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