Re: Sponsoring ...

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote:

> Hello, ...

Hi Sven,

> I am sponsoring someone who wants to become a new maintainer, and well, i have
> checked the packages and there are ok.
>
> Now, what is the correct way for his packages to be uploaded into debian.
>
> I thought that buildiing and signing the package myself, and then uploading
> would be ok, but it is not working, dpkg-buildpackage is not happy with me
> providing a pgp key with -k.
>
> What is the best way of doing this, or alternatively, is there some doc
> somewhere explaining the finer aspects on sponsoring ?

I do usually a:

  dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot
  cd ..
  debsign -m'Adrian Bunk' fspanel_0.5-1_i386.changes

and it works without any problems.


> Friendly,
>
> Svne Luther

cu,
Adrian

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