The Debian Maintainers page on the wiki [1] states
Once you have your key in the debian-maintainers keyring, you will be
able to upload packages, where the following conditions hold:
* the package already lists you in the Maintainer or the Uploaders
control fields
* the package already has the DM-Upload-Allowed: yes control
field
* the package is not NEW
The point that gets me is the "the package is not NEW" section.
If a package contains a new binary package, or has a name change, for
example, it needs to go through NEW again.
The point here is, is a DM allowed to upload a new package in this case,
or does a sponsor have to do it for them.
I can understand that a DM has to have a completely NEW package
sponsored, or they'd just be a DD. But in the case of a new binary
package meaning that it needs to go through NEW, what is the case here.
I think that this needs to be clarified in the documentation either way,
but in the case where a DM needs to have a package sponsored for the
case where a package is NEW simply due to binary changes, I think this
should be thought about again.
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