Re: Sponsoring, signing, etc.
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 05:48:46PM +0200, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona wrote:
> I'm going to sponsor a guy who has already completed a package which
> seems to be in good shape. It is my first sponsorship, and I'd like to
> upload his package. Now the questions:
>
> - Should he register somewhere as a sponsored guy? (some time ago,
> when I was sponsored before entering Debian, I remember registering in
> some web page with a list of sponsors and sponsored people).
I know of a page where folks register to FIND a sponsor. (Look at the
list of "projects" in the Debian Developer's Corner.) Since he already
has one, the value of registering is lost on me.
> - What should I include in control, his name or my name?
>
> - What should I include in changelog, his name or my name?
It would be the package maintainer creating those files. You should
not touch them. Your job is only to take the .orig and .diff files,
build the package, and upload it.
> I saw a discussion in this list some time ago about all this, but I do
> not find an answer to these questions. I saw nothing in w.d.o/devel
> either, although maybe I did'n look at the correct places...
Indeed, it has been discussed. Look harder!
> I assume that, once these questions are answered, I can just rebuild
> the package with:
>
> dpkg-buildpackage -mjgb@debian.org -rfakeroot -sgpg -tc
The last time this came up, I saved the following two suggestions.
Rick Younie suggested:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -k"your key"
where "your key" identifies the key the sponsor wants to sign
with
and Adrian Bunk responded that he prefers to use
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot
debsign -m'Adrian Bunk' package.changes
I use Rick's procedure and have not had problems.
> And dput it to incoming. Am I missing something? In particular, are
> the bugs against this package going to be assigned to somebody?
The bugs will be sent to the Maintainer: listed in the control file, I
believe. That's why you should leave it to the real maintainer ...
Cheers,
-Steve
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