Bug 156222

Summary:	Broken & dead email addresses in *.spec files
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	David Binderman <dcb314>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.1
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Description David Binderman 2006-03-08 19:25:11 UTC

I have made the experience that a lot of email addresses
in the *.spec files are either dead or broken.

Suggest someone needs to check that the email addresses published
in the *.spec files for authors & maintainers are alive and
well and someone at the far end is reading the emails.

I know this is a lot of work because there are something like
2,500 *.spec files, but why publish something if you haven't 
checked it's veracity ?

At least it would avoid sending bug reports to /dev/null ;->

Comment 1 Andreas Jaeger 2006-03-09 15:21:46 UTC

The homepage of the product is the one that should be accurate and if it isn't that's worth a bugreport.

WE cannot check all the email addresses, I see no chance there...

Comment 2 Michael Gross 2006-03-09 15:25:21 UTC

I have to agree, besides the fact that checking an e-mail address for its validity is not as trivial as it sounds. Providing a correct email-address is the responsibility of the upstream-maintainer of the package. I'm closing this report now.