{"id":378,"date":"2009-09-17T00:07:39","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T22:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=378"},"modified":"2009-09-17T09:42:48","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T07:42:48","slug":"managing-your-pts-subscriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=378","title":{"rendered":"Managing your PTS subscriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Subscribing to packages on the PTS is really useful to stay informed of everything happening with those packages. Unfortunately, managing your PTS subscriptions is really a challenge. Here is how I proceed to subscribe to packages I forgot to subscribe after uploading them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To get the list of your subscriptions, connect to master.d.o, and run<br \/>\n<code>\/org\/packages.qa.debian.org\/bin\/get-summary-subscribers.pl | grep <\/code><em>your@email<\/em><br \/>\nThat&#8217;s also a way to know who is interested in your packages. :-)<\/li>\n<li>You can use UDD (from master) to know the list of packages you should probably be subscribed to, that is, packages you maintain or co-maintain in sid:<br \/>\n<code>psql -A -t service=udd -c \"select source from sources<br \/>\nwhere distribution='debian' and release='sid'<br \/>\nand maintainer_email='your@email'<br \/>\nunion select source from uploaders<br \/>\nwhere distribution='debian' and release='sid'<br \/>\nand email='your@email';\"<\/li>\n<li>You can them use <code>combine<\/code> to find the packages you should subscribe to, and mass-subscribe using the email interface.<\/li>\n<li>Then, you are done, or almost done: mass-confirming PTS subscriptions is a PITA because of <a href=\"http:\/\/bugs.debian.org\/340863\">#340863<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some more info:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The PTS lives on master, in <code>\/org\/packages.qa.debian.org<\/code>.<\/li>\n<li>The script that handles emails send to pts@ is <code>bin\/control.pl<\/code>.<\/li>\n<li>The spool dir for pending requests is <code>spool\/<\/code>. The files are simple text files.<\/li>\n<li>You can send multiple commands per email. Sending them in the subject might be broken. (at least it failed for me)<\/li>\n<li>You don't need to take special care of the <i>From<\/i> for your emails. It's ignored (unless you subscribe without specifying an email address).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subscribing to packages on the PTS is really useful to stay informed of everything happening with those packages. Unfortunately, managing your PTS subscriptions is really a challenge. Here is how I proceed to subscribe to packages I forgot to subscribe after uploading them: To get the list of your subscriptions, connect to master.d.o, and run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planetdebian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}