On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 05:55:16PM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> Hello, ...
>
> I am sponsoring someone who wants to become a new maintainer, and well, i have
> checked the packages and there are ok.
>
> Now, what is the correct way for his packages to be uploaded into debian.
>
> I thought that buildiing and signing the package myself, and then uploading
> would be ok, but it is not working, dpkg-buildpackage is not happy with me
> providing a pgp key with -k.
>
> What is the best way of doing this, or alternatively, is there some doc
> somewhere explaining the finer aspects on sponsoring ?
dpkg-buildpackage/debuild -m"Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
fairly standard from then on, sign/upload.
some people like to add something in the changelog noting that it is
a sponsored upload.
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** Brian T. Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> **
wolfie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> || <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<Overfiend> Shit, there I go again, cleaning up my image
just to win a lousy election.
