@Loren As an sponsored maintainer and hence subscriber to this mailing list, I think a subject line with a specific ticket number, package name and -- in the particular case -- the acronym RFS would ease to follow up the progress of your work. Ideally it were the template reaching level 4 / Find a sponsor[1] offers.
Inferring from your message filed by Sun, 21 Jan 2024 02:29:20 -0800 your work relates to rpm[2] with its RFA[3] (and hence, an existing ticket) I fetched a fork by ``` git clone http://www.north-winds.org/git/rpm.git ``` File `/debian/changelog` for your new version 4.18.2+dfsg-1 does not explicitly mention to close (including the corresponding ticket numbers, and a `closes: #NNNNNNN`) one of the bugs currently (15:10 UTC +1) listed on https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?repeatmerged=no&src=rpm. If your work addressed them, may you amend accordingly the changelog file? Are you member of the pkg-rpm-team? If not, and if the package now were maintained by you, a successful upload to Debian likely might require an update of debian/control, in lines of `Vcs-Browser:` and `Vcs-Git:`. Best regards, Norwid [1] https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers/ [2] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/rpm [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=923352
