launchpad is ambigious about a person's indirect subscriptions where external team contacts are used

[Micah Gersten]

I'm in ubuntu-bugs which has an external contact and a subscription to everything - I get told that:
You have subscriptions that may cause you to receive notifications, but you are not directly subscribed to this bug's notifications.

Regardless of whether or not I'm subscribed to the package/distro. This is confusing.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

neither bug supervisor nor security contact cause you to get notifications. I suggest you check your structural subscriptions.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

I understand that, I was guessing as to the cause of that notice for me. The actual cause is being a member of the ubuntu-bugs team which has a mailing list.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

Theres a separate bug (fixed) about that - the problem is that with external lists we don't know if you are subscribed or not. Perhaps we should be more explicit about that.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Right, well, the problem is whether it's indirect through ubuntu-bugs or indirect that I'm subscribed to the package, it says the same thing. I generally don't want to subscribe to a bug if I have a package level individual subscription, whereas, if I don't have a package level description, I generally do. I believe this is a regression, as before I was listed in the package/distro contacts and now I am not.

[Gary Poster (gary)]

@Micah
I understand that this is not what you are asking for, but if it helps, you can get full details about *all* the reasons you get emails about a bug. At this time, the information is available by clicking on the "Edit bug mail" link, and then expanding the "Other subscriptions." In the future, it might be nice to have that information more easily accessible.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

@Gary Poster
Ok. That's slightly annoying, but I think that removes it from the realm of regression since the information is 2 clicks away.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Well, actually, it's nice in that it's clear somewhere :)