Don't use dpkg-buildpackage -m, especially not with NMUs
I see it happen occasionally that NMU's and sometimes also group-uploads
are happening while using '-m' to dpkg-buildpackage. This has the effect
that the 'Maintainer:' field in the .changes file gets overridden to
yourself, and that is not the intention. Your upload will therefore not
be marked as 'NMU' for example, and bugs are really closed, rather than
marked fixed.
There is really no reason to use -m usually, only in the case of buildd
uploads I can see the use. Also for sponsored uploads, you should leave
the Maintainer: as it is, that is, what is said in debian/control. If
the problem is that otherwise, gpg won't find the right key, see the -k
option, which can be used to explicitely choose a key, it doesn't need
to match any field in the .changes. Using debuild from devscripts you
can put your own also in ~/.devscripts so it'll all just magically work.
--Jeroen
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Jeroen van Wolffelaar
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