Bug 156222 - Broken & dead email addresses in *.spec files
Summary: Broken & dead email addresses in *.spec files
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Basesystem (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All SuSE Linux 10.1
: P5 - None : Normal
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Reported: 2006-03-08 19:25 UTC by David Binderman
Modified: 2006-03-09 15:25 UTC (History)
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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.