Mail headers for automated package maintenance emails

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

-- 
bye, Joerg
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(Closes: #157011)
 -- Christian Marillat <marillatdebian.org>  Thu, 29 Aug
2002 16:41:58 +0200