On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:50:59PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Previously Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > But I'm *not* the maintainer; I'm one of a group of maintainers. If > > > we do this, then every time one of us uploads, we need to change the > > > maintainer name in the control file. > > > > You needed to do that anyway. The problem you have is that dinstall > > has no way to figre out if you are one of the official maintainers. > > No; at present, we only have to enter the correct entry in the > changelog, keeping "Debian policy list <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>" > in the control file Maintainer field. Then all of our uploads are > considered NMUs and we have to close the bugs manually thereafter (how > lazy we have become!).
Um, why not set 'Debian policy list <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>' in the changelog, but just sign the files with the key of the uploader?