Mike Hommey wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 10:46:31AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > Bas Wijnen wrote: > > > I would expect that adding DM-Upload-Allowed should be a concious > > > decision which is to be made when a specific person is (about to become) > > > a DM and should be allowed to upload this specific package. If I am > > > right in this, it makes no sense to set this flag when only DDs are > > > maintaining it. Do others have other ideas about this flag? Do people > > > just set it everywhere to show support for the DM system, or something? > > > > debian-maintainers (0.03) unstable; urgency=low > > > > * Add Dm-Upload-Allowed: yes header to allow for access control of > > automatic byhand processing. > > I must have lost my awareness device, but what is it supposed to mean ? byhand processing: Necessary for all source packages that produce non-deb/udeb files, such as a keyring, or d-i boot images. As much fun as NEW, except you get to deal with it on every upload. automatic byhand processing: An oxymoronic term for automating the above in specific cases. "raw-keyring processing" is a more modern term for this case. Details of how all this works in DAK, explained by someone who actually understands it, with pointers to the code that does the processing: http://lists.debian.org/debian-dak/2007/10/msg00009.html -- see shy jo
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