Hello everybody, fist of all, thanks a lot for your support for my application to the DM keyring. I am now Debian Mainainer :)
The way it works is that the debian/control file of a source package must contain the (XS-)DM-Upload: Yes field, and the Debian Maintainer (DM) must be listed as an uploader, in order for him to upload that package independantly. As a consequence, It usually needs one more sponsoring before a DM can upload a given package by himself. Since our de facto policy is to have in the Uploaders field only the persons who regularly contribute to a package, I was wondering if it would make sense to add the DM-Upload field to all our packages. We still keep a good control of what is going on, since we scrutinize the changes in the SVN through the diffs automatically sent to the debian-med-packaging mailing list in Alioth, and since somebody freshly accepted in the DM keyring will anyway not be able to upload packages in which he never worked before. If you agree, I will commit such a change. I am already listed in the Uploaders field of the following pacakges: http://qa.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Would David become DM, it would give him upload rights to proda and emboss-explorer, which are packages that he created. Importantly, some packages do note evlove fast enough to desserve an upload just for the DM-Upload field. I will ask sponsorship for the fastest-evolving pacakges. I think that I will take the opportunity go move emboss and related packages to the Debian-Med svn, as it was proposed earlier. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org WakÅ, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
