Re: systemd-devel listed as support confuses users (was: connection failure)

[Lennart Poettering <lennart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Di, 02.07.19 18:51, František Šumšal (frantisek@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:

>
>
> On 7/2/19 4:36 PM, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > Am Di., 2. Juli 2019 um 16:16 Uhr schrieb Paul Menzel
> > <pmenzel+systemd-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >> Reading the output above, I can see, why the people contact this mailing
> >> list.
> >
> > I agree here. While we do have `support-url` which distros can
> > override, Apparently not all of them do.
> > We could probably change our build system, that `support-url` needs to
> > be set explicitly and if unset, no Support URL is printed in the
> > journal output.
>
> This, or since the URL leads to [0], it would be also useful to extend
> the "About systemd-devel" section to provide some kind of warning that
> this ML is mainly/only for upstream systemd, not for systemd shipped by
> distributions.
>
> [0] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

I added a paragraph there now that attempts to clear this up. I hope
people actually look there, though.

Lennart

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