</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
+<term><literal>contact</literal></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>
+Mails sent to the maintainer through the *@packages.debian.org email
+aliases.
+</para>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+<varlistentry>
<term><literal>summary</literal></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<term><literal>cvs</literal></term>
<listitem>
<para>
-CVS commit notifications, if the package has a CVS repository and the
-maintainer has set up forwarding commit notifications to the PTS.
+VCS commit notifications, if the package has a VCS repository and the
+maintainer has set up forwarding of commit notifications to the PTS. The
+"cvs" name is historic, in most cases commit notifications will come
+from some other VCS like subversion or git.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
-<literal>cvs</literal>: notification of CVS commits
+<literal>contact</literal>: mails sent to the maintainer through the
+*@packages.debian.org aliases
+</para>
+</listitem>
+<listitem>
+<para>
+<literal>cvs</literal>: notification of VCS commits
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
X-Loop: dpkg@&pts-host;
X-PTS-Package: dpkg
X-PTS-Keyword: upload-source
-X-Unsubscribe: echo 'unsubscribe dpkg' | mail pts@qa.debian.org
+List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:pts@qa.debian.org?body=unsubscribe+dpkg>
</screen>
</section>
-<section id="pts-cvs-commit">
-<title>Forwarding CVS commits in the PTS</title>
+<section id="pts-vcs-commit">
+<title>Forwarding VCS commits in the PTS</title>
<para>
-If you use a publicly accessible CVS repository for maintaining your Debian
+If you use a publicly accessible VCS repository for maintaining your Debian
package, you may want to forward the commit notification to the PTS so that the
subscribers (and possible co-maintainers) can closely follow the package's
evolution.
</para>
<para>
-Once you set up the CVS repository to generate commit notifications, you just
+Once you set up the VCS repository to generate commit notifications, you just
have to make sure it sends a copy of those mails to
<literal><replaceable>sourcepackage</replaceable>_cvs@&pts-host;</literal>.
Only the people who accept the <emphasis>cvs</emphasis> keyword will receive
-these notifications.
+these notifications. Note that the mail need to be sent from a
+<literal>debian.org</literal> machine, otherwise you'll have to add
+the <literal>X-PTS-Approved: 1</literal> header.
+</para>
+<para>
+For Subversion repositories, the usage of svnmailer is recommended.
+See <ulink url="&url-alioth-pkg;" /> for an example on how to do it.
</para>
</section>