Re: Debbugs handling of Guix patches

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Glenn,

Glenn Morris <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
>> We'd like to use Debbugs to handle some of the patches we get for Guix,
>> and I have just created address@hidden 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
>> address@hidden, 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
> address@hidden The email address is address@hidden

Sorry for the confusion.  I was referring to the “maintainer email
address” as mentioned in Using.html.  Can it be address@hidden or
address@hidden

>> 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’.