Granting DM rights as a sponsor
Hi,
I want to grant DM rights for a package that I sponsored, and I am a bit
confused how this works in real life.
According to [1], I should create a file with the following format:
------------------8<------------------------------------
Archive: ftp.debian.org
Uploader: Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org>
Action: dm
Fingerprint: 1234567890ABCDEF1234567890ABCDEF
Allow: plotly
------------------8<------------------------------------
The file should be named $login-EPOCH.dak-commands (say
'ansgar-1348293.dak-commands'). First question that arised: what is
EPOCH here? `date +%s`? "login" is probably *my* login, and not one
belonging to the maintainer, right?
Is the Fingerprint: the one of the Maintainer's key?
When I then try to sign the file, debsign is confused by the
".dak-commands" suffix, which already was reported as bug report [2].
Since the bug report is still open, there may be an other standard way
to sign? I finally used
gpg -u <my-gpg-key> -a --clearsign olebole-1436862204.dak-commands
and then renamed the .asc. file back to the original one. Is this the
way of choice?
Finally, when I tried to upload the file
dcut -U olebole-1436862204.dak-commands ftp-master
I get the (confusing) message:
Error: I'm insisting on the .commands extension, which
"olebole-1436862204.dak-commands" doesnt seem to have.
Uploading olebole-1436862204.dak-commands: done.
Is this now going to be processed? Or is it an error?
Best regards
Ole
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/09/msg00008.html
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/688491
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