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Re: New gpg key and the overrides file



On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 10:41:32AM +0000, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> Well, I've finally succeeded in automatically signing my packages using my
> new gpg key. Now all my uploads are identified as NMUs! Obviously the user
> ID in the overrides file is not equal to the new user ID of my gpg key.
> 
> The question is: Must I report bugs against ftp.debian.org (or overrides
> file specifically) for each of my packages, or can I deal with all
> packages in one bug report?

AFAIK, an upload is considered a maintainer upload if and only if the
Maintainer: field in the control file is *identical* (name and email)
to that in the changelog.  Even one character difference will cause it
to be considered an NMU.

   Julian

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