Re: DM application of Emile Joubert

["John Leuner" <jewel@subvert-the-dominant-paradigm.net>]

Hi Anibal

> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:10:01PM +0200, John Leuner wrote:
>>On Sat, 2012-02-11 at 00:42 +0000, Emile Joubert wrote:
>>>This is my declaration of intent to become a Debian Maintainer
>>><URL:http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer>.
>>>
>>>I have read the Social Contract, Debian Free Software Guidelines and
>>>Debian Machine Usage Policy and agree with all of them.  Currently, I
>>>maintain the rabbitmq-server package.
>>>
>>>My GnuPG key 60F7BCB2 is signed by the Debian Developers Chris Lamb,
>>>Dave Holland and Tim Cutts. I look forward to becoming a Debian
>>>Maintainer. Thanks for your attention.
>>
>>I have been uploading the rabbitmq-server package for several years and
>>I am confident that Emile is ready to upload them on his own.
>
> The files debian/{changelog,copyright} don't mention Emile's name. The
> uploads were not done in his name but yours. I had noticed that some DDs
> replace the sponsoree name with theirs in debian/control. Is this the
> case?

That is correct, I used my name in all the changelog entries. In the
control file I specified either my name or 'RabbitMQ Team' as the
maintainer.

In retrospect I should have kept the original changelog entries.

John Leuner