Re: DMs' difficulties in uploading packages into Backports (Was: Re: Bug#901584 closed by Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>)

[Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>]

Hello,

On Fri, Jun 15 2018, Boyuan Yang wrote:

> 2. and that Debian Maintainer asks another Debian Developer to open an
> RT ticket to get the uid into the backports ACL and wait till the
> ticket is finished. Note that non-DDs have no access to RT system thus
> a sponsorship of RT ticket from other DDs is needed.

This is not true.

Non-DDs cannot look at tickets in the system, but they can submit them.

I was a DM uploading to backports long before becoming a DD and I
submitted the request to RT myself.

-- 
Sean Whitton