Arch hook for commit messages

[Rob Browning]

J=E9r=F4me Marant <jerome.marant@free.fr> writes:

> Here is the arch hook I use to send commit messages to the -commits
> list. You can put it in .arch-params/hook and meke it executable.

Hmm.  I'm not necessarily opposed to this, but it made me wonder what
is the intended audience here?  Is it going to be people who
don't/can't use tla/baz?  If not, and perhaps even if so, I'm a little
concerned about sending a full diff to the list.  There may be times
when that diff is quite large.

I'd be tempted to just post a notice/summary rather than the full
diff, and perhaps the summary could include the debian/changelog diff.
>From that, interested parties could use tla/baz to see exactly what
happened.  As another alternative, we could use cut to limit the
length of the resulting post to say to 100 or 200 lines.

Also, I doubt there's any automatic support for this, but at least in
my case, it'd be nice if the mail were sent at archive-mirror time
rather than commit time.

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