Re: Changes to Debian Maintainer upload permissions

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Sat, 2012-09-22 at 10:06:35 +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> This new interface replaces the old DMUA field. The old field will stop
> working on the 24th of November 2012, from then on only packages
> explicitly granted upload permission to their DMs using the interface
> described here will pass the DM check.

Cool! I've now locally queued a patch removing support for the field
from dpkg, which will be included in the first 1.17.x version uploaded
(to experimental) after the date the field stops being honoured on the
archive side.

thanks,
guillem