Thanks Ansgar, I'll give it a try. Drew
On Thu, 2017-06-08 at 22:29 +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Hi, > > Drew Parsons writes: > > Johannes Ring is the upstream author and a Debian Maintainer (but > > not > > full DDeveloper). We're lucky to have him so closely involved in > > the > > Debian maintenance of dijitso and the other FEniCS packages. > > > > Lately Johannes tried to upload dijitso 2017.1 to experimental but > > the > > system blocked him, citing insufficient permissions. Certainly I > > could > > do the upload but we wanted to understand what the block was. > > Debian Maintainers can only upload packages they have been explicitly > granted permission to upload. Nobody has allowed Johannes to upload > dijitso (see the current permissions at [1]), so the upload gets > rejected. > > To grant DMs upload permissions, any DD can either use `dcut` from > `dput-ng` or manually write a *.dak-commands file[2] and upload it. > dak will then update the ACL and send a confirmation message by mail. > > The .dak-commands file should look something like this: > > +--- > > Archive: ftp.debian.org > > Uploader: Drew Parsons <[email protected]> > > > > Action: dm > > Fingerprint: ${40 hexdigits fingerprint of the DMs PGP key} > > Allow: dijitso > > +---[ dparsons-20170808-2227.dak-commands ] > > Ansgar > > [1] <https://ftp-master.debian.org/dm.txt> > [2] <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/09/msg0000 > 8.html>
