On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 12:19:52PM +1300, Andrew McMillan wrote: > I'm just about to upload a package that Chris Halls has adopted. Since > he is not yet a DD he wants me to sponsor it for him. > > I have reviewed what he is done, and I'm happy with it. Now I want to > upload it. > > Should I set myself as maintainer, or should I just sign it?
Different sponsors handle this in different ways. I prefer to keep an eye on what's happening with the package, so I set things up for BTS mails to be forwarded to both sponsor and sponsored. The following info was posted by AJ on debian-devel last summer (msg#92613, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): | * create a file klecker:~/.forward-sponsoring-foo, containing your | email address and the person your sponsoring | | * set the Maintainer: field to be | Maintainer: Foo (sponsored by Bar) \ | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | (unfortunately mail to people.debian.org doesn't seem to use the | nifty filters) | | This assumes the sponsors going to be more involved with the package | (and the sponsee) than to just upload a package once and then forget | about it. Of course, this might not be necessary if you trust in your sponsoree's "package management" ability. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 ¯ ´` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
