Re: We still need sponsors!
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 13:00:28 +0100 (CET)
Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> wrote:
> The way I prefer is:
>
> The maintainer makes the package as if he was an official developer.
> The sponsor rebuilds the package, checks it, and if it's OK he signs it
> with his key (using "debsign -m") and uploads it.
>
> Note that the name of the sponsor doesn't appear anywhere except in the
> gpg signature of the .changes and the .dsc files and there's nothing that
> makes the upload look like a NMU.
I agree with this way and that's how I do it myself...
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -kyou_keyID
will do the job for you... IMO sponsoring is not NMU and it should not
be marked as such
[]s!
--
Gustavo Noronha Silva - kov <http://www.metainfo.org/kov>
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