Bug#462330: darcs: please implement automatic commit mails

[Luca Capello]

Package: darcs
Version: 1.0.9-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream

Hello,

while this is for sure an upstream wishlist bug, I'm reporting it here
because it'll be very useful for darcs.d.o [1].

The Debian Common Lisp Team [2] would like to receive a mail every time
a new patch (or a patch bundle) is applied to one of its darcs
repositories ([3], point 3).

Searching on the darcs BTS gave only bug #304 [4], which is not exactly
the same issue I'm reporting.

Searching on the net was far more useful, since I found a patch by
Olivier Thauvin [5] which should allow such a feature in an easy way.
However, I could not find any "official" comment about Olivier's patch,
which seems to not have been applied in the stable nor unstable darcs
repositories.

What's available ATM is a shell script by Marco Baringer [6] (included
for archive purpose), which is already used for the BESE project [7].
While I ignore the original ideas behind this script, what's funny is
that its aim is exactly the same as Olivier Thauvin's patch [5].

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

Footnotes: 
[1] http://darcs.debian.org
[2] http://pkg-common-lisp.alioth.debian.org
[3] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-common-lisp-devel/2008-January/000000.html
[4] http://bugs.darcs.net/issue304
[5] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.darcs.devel/4049
[6] http://alioth.debian.org/~gismo/darcs-email-changelog.sh
[7] http://common-lisp.net/project/bese/

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-rc8-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages darcs depends on:
ii  libc6                 2.7-6              GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcurl3              7.17.1-1           Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libgmp3c2             2:4.2.2+dfsg-1     Multiprecision arithmetic library
ii  libkrb53              1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-2 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libncurses5           5.6+20080105-1     Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  zlib1g                1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11  compression library - runtime

Versions of packages darcs recommends:
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent 2.4.6-4    High-performance mail transport ag

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