Re: Granting DM rights as a sponsor
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 2:45 AM, Gergely Nagy
<lists@madhouse-project.org> wrote:
>>>>>> "Ole" == Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org> writes:
>
> Ole> I want to grant DM rights for a package that I sponsored, and I am a bit
> Ole> confused how this works in real life.
>
> Ole> According to [1], I should create a file with the following format:
>
> Ole> ------------------8<------------------------------------
> Ole> Archive: ftp.debian.org
> Ole> Uploader: Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org>
>
> Ole> Action: dm
> Ole> Fingerprint: 1234567890ABCDEF1234567890ABCDEF
> Ole> Allow: plotly
> Ole> ------------------8<------------------------------------
>
> Using yodack[1], this would look something like this:
>
> yodack on ftp-master.debian.org, \
> for dm 1234567890ABCDEF1234567890ABCDEF, \
> please allow uploading plotly.
>
> [1]: https://github.com/algernon/yodack
>
> It will do all the required steps. There may be better options, or
> in-debian tools that help you do the same thing, but yodack is what I
> know. I faintly remember there being a reason why yodack never made it
> into Debian (such as a better alternative), like this:
>
> dcut dm --uid 1234567890ABCDEF1234567890ABCDEF --allow=plotly
>
> But that's purely speculation, based on dcut(1).
My understanding is that yodack has been replaced/superseded by
dput-ng (the latter is actually in the archive). You'll need to use
dput-ng's dcut(1), not that of dput, for the above command to work.
Regards,
Vincent
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