Re: How to sponsor someone and upload a sponsored package?

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr>]

On Wednesday 13 September 2000, at 17 h 37, the keyboard of Franklin Belew 
<frb@balance.wiw.org> wrote:

> I'm not sure if there is a page yet

http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/sponsor/

> but the steps are really simple,

Here's what you should do if you want to sponsor someone (you must be an 
official Debian developer) :

    fill the form below to let us know that you're sponsoring someone 
    download the package produced by the future developer 
    completely check the package and explain all the mistakes to the future 
developer
    let him provide a corrected version 
    check it again and upload the package to Incoming if it's ok. For 
recompiling, assuming you are "Happy Sponsor
    <nice@foo.bar>", use dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -m'Happy Sponsor 
<nice@foo.bar>'.
    Then, you can simply dupload. 
    speak a bit with the future developer about what he wants to do for Debian 
and about his motivation.
    send a mail to new-maintainer@debian.org telling them that the candidate 
successfully packaged XX (which is in
    Incoming) and that he also wants to do YY for Debian (if he told you 
something of course !).