Re: Sponsoring new maintianers, and package uploads

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr>]

On Thursday 11 November 1999, at 19 h 13, the keyboard of Dale Scheetz 
<dwarf@polaris.net> wrote:

> If I do a non-maintainer upload of his package, leaving him as the
> designated maintainer, isn't this going to cause problems, as he is not on
> the maintianer rolls?

This is documented in <http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/sponsor/> :

check it again and upload the package to Incoming if it's ok. For recompiling, assuming you are "Happy  Sponsor <nice@foo.bar>", use dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -m'Happy Sponsor <nice@foo.bar>'. Then, you can simply dupload.