X-posted from the -dev list... thoughts welcome

In retrospect, I think that the mailto scheme is actually the correct one and
that the 'historical' plain mail address is the one more likely to cause
trouble in the future. Let me elaborate: if we use automatic
tools/applications (extras-assistant, appwatch, something based on texrat's
framework, you name it), defining an URL there is the right thing to do: if
it's a mailto: scheme, the browser will open the mail client, so it will work.
With putting simple mail addresses in there, any potential automated client
(including the maemo.org interface) will have to make this analysis whether
the giver string is a mail address, whether it's correct, etc, etc. I'm
inclined to say the bugtracker should be a proper URL (whether http or mailto
doesn't matter as long as it can be automatically handled with a browser). The
maemo.org interface will have to take this into account either way. Of course,
should we reach an agreement of such a change, we should probably send out a
notification mail to all package maintainers using the 'old' scheme in the
bugtracker fields (not that difficult to find with grep). Comments welcome.