Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> (19/01/2009): > Yes, that's exactly what I was hoping to get from my packages (and > thought it was my responsibility to do so; I wasn't fully aware that > the sponsor re-builds the package and uploads the result). (Just for completeness, from a pratical point of view:) Well, you upload a source package. Even if they wanted to, sponsors can't sign the _source.changes (which is what contains Closes et al.) and upload it as is, they have to build (at least) a binary, otherwise dak's going to reject the upload (and I'm sure _source.changes are available from mentors.d.n, though I didn't check). (One may suggest they could build the binary-only part and use mergechanges, but…) Which means that indeed, it's the sponsors' “responsibility” to use a proper -v when needed. > Now that I better understand how that all happens, I will communicate > with sponsors explicitly about this for future package releases, and > find out how they want to proceed. I think that's a good idea, yes. Mraw, KiBi.
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