On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 09:49:18AM -0400, Peter Colberg wrote: > The packages are not in backports yet and have to go through the > backports NEW queue [1]. If I am not mistaken, the same rules as for > the regular NEW queue apply, such that the initial upload has to be > done by a DD. I had sponsorships of the initial upload for other > packages before (cgit, twinkle) for which I have DM upload rights.
The backports documentation confirms that DMs require sponsorship: https://backports.debian.org/Contribute/#index3h3 Peter
