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[Scott Kitterman]

When LP processes bugs marked fixed in debian/changelog and adds it to the bug, it marks that action as being from me (both in LP and in the bug mail) when in fact I had nothing directly to do with it. This forgery of my e-mail address should stop. If LP is going to send mail in my name, the it ought to be on the basis of something I actually did.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Relevant mail header just in case:

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[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

It's not a dupe of that bug. Bug #31586 objects to the entire bugmail scheme. That's not what I'm trying to report.

I understand putting the users address in the 2822-From when they take an action. My objection here is to messages sent in my name when I did NOT take an action.

[Christian Reis (kiko)]

This can probably be fixed together with bug 94321 since they are very similar.

[Björn Tillenius (bjornt)]

This is actually not that similar to bug 94321, so I'm pushing it to the next milestone, since it's not completely trivial, and there's already too much work to do this milestone.

[Eleanor Berger (intellectronica)]

See https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/launchpad-users/2007-May/001529.html for a suggestion to add an explanation to the comment - only copying the changelog into the comment can be a bit obscure.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

That's a completely different type of issue. You're implementing, I guess, so however you want to file it, but generically, I'd suggest that's a different bug. The debian/changelog is exactly what's needed from a developer perspective. If a user can't figure it out from the changelog entry, the rest of the bug, and the fact that's it's gone fix released, I don't know how much an additional comment is going to help.

So, I don't think it'd be particularly helpful. Additionally, I think automating it would likely be error prone and might make the situation worse.

[Eleanor Berger (intellectronica)]

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