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Subject: Re: Debbugs handling of Guix patches
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 13:41:19 +0100
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Hi Glenn,

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> skribis:

> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote:
>
>> We'd like to use Debbugs to handle some of the patches we get for Guix,
>> and I have just created guix-patches@gnu.org for that purpose.
>>
>> Looking at <https://debbugs.gnu.org/Using.html>, I think the name for
>> Debbugs should be "guix-patches".  The email address could be
>> bug-guix@gnu.org, but that's another Debbugs instance (what is this
>> address actually used for?).  The URL is
>> <https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/>.
>>
>> We'd use it in "exclusive mode".
>
> This is fine, but I'm confused by you saying the email address could be
> bug-guix@gnu. The email address is guix-patches@gnu.

Sorry for the confusion.  I was referring to the =E2=80=9Cmaintainer email
address=E2=80=9D as mentioned in Using.html.  Can it be bug-guix@gnu.org or
guix-devel@gnu.org?

>> We're wondering about patch series as sent by 'git send-email' though.
>> What would be your suggestion for those?
>
> You'll get one debbugs report created for each mail in a given series.
> This is explained at https://debbugs.gnu.org/15361, along with the
> workaround: first create a report ("here's the problem for which I will
> send a patch"), then send patches to that bug number rather than bug-foo.

Great, thanks!

Ludo=E2=80=99.