On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 08:37:55PM +0000, W. Borgert wrote: > Hi, > > I just try to sponsor Michael Piefel, who is in the NM > process. He build successfully the package kimwitu++ and I > uploaded the package, but it disappeared somehow. I think I > missed something important :-) > > Is there a page on www.debian.org that tells me what I have > to do to sponsor Michael and upload his package so that it > goes into unstable? Thanks for any hint! > I'm not sure if there is a page yet but the steps are really simple, 1> retrieve source, dsc and diff.gz from sponsoree 2> build in a standard environment 3> Audit code as you would your own package 4> sign changes and dsc as youreself (alternatively use dpkg-buildpackage -m"Your@Address") 5> Remind yourself that you are responsible for anything that happens with this package 6> Rememer again that you are the one who will be blamed if it has rm -fr / in the postinst 7> Upload 8> Optionally tell your sponsoree when it is installed You can also alternatively add an entry to the changelog instead of using the -m option to dpkg-buildpackage Frank aka Myth
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