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Re: Automatic reply by the debian bug tracking system spams GNATS and vice versa
- From: Colin Watson <cjwatson at debian dot org>
- To: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth at ticam dot utexas dot edu>
- Cc: Debian Bug Tracking System <owner at bugs dot debian dot org>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 18:21:59 +0000
- Subject: Re: Automatic reply by the debian bug tracking system spams GNATS and vice versa
- References: <handler.x.Q85908.10402267865251.unknown@bugs.debian.org> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212181011530.16100-100000@gandalf.ticam.utexas.edu>
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 10:18:04AM -0600, Wolfgang Bangerth wrote:
> Sometimes people file reports in the gcc bug tracking system GNATS which
> have already been reported to the Debian system. They then enter the
> latter system's address address into the CC-field of the GNATS report.
>
> Now when someone changes something at a report within GNATS, the change
> message also goes to the Debian system, which answers with an automatic
> receipt message. This receipt message is sometimes picked up by GNATS
> automatically as a new report, in which the submitter is the Debian
> system, and the Debian system also sometimes picks up the GNATS change
> message as a new report.
We have temporarily broken this loop by causing debbugs not to send acks
to gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org, but this isn't a very satisfactory solution.
Could a GNATS hacker please get in touch so that we can discuss
something more permanent (e.g. using the Precedence: header on both
sides)?
Thanks,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]