Re: Sponsoring ...

[Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 06:03:10PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 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.

thanks, will try it, ...

i tried dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -k"Sven LUTHER <luther@debian.org>"

didn't work.

Friendly,

Sven Luther