• Addressing the spam from the AUTORM script

    From Thomas Goirand@21:1/5 to All on Fri Dec 17 13:40:01 2021
    Hi,

    It's been a long time I wanted to write this kind of message, but I'm
    unsure against which package I should report the bug.

    My issue is that I maintain a lot of packages that all depend on the
    same (more or less) packages. Whenever a high profile (build-)dependency
    enter the AUTORM phrase, my inbox gets spammed by half a gazillion emails.

    The last occurrence was with httpbin (ie: #1001121) that triggered
    literally 99 individual messages in my inbox.

    Would it be possible that instead, I get a single message on each AUTORM
    run, telling me about it? I very much would prefer a single message
    containing 99 identical lines, than 99 identical messages...

    Cheers,

    Thomas Goirand (zigo)

    P.S: Yes, I know, I can do filtering on my inbox, and in fact, I do, but
    it's still annoying for many reasons...

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  • From Paul Gevers@21:1/5 to All on Fri Dec 17 17:50:02 2021
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