Hi Christian, On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 04:55:55PM GMT, Christian Kastner wrote: > Hi Tiago, > > On 2025-01-17 14:51, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz wrote: > > It is very much appreciated that you were diligent and consulted > > documentation (and this list) before trying to sponsor packages as a DM. > > Technically, it's not possible. See: > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer#Granting_Permissions > > I think there might be a misunderstanding here: the above article is > about granting someone else upload privileges. Whereas here, we have a > DM who already has upload privileges, who would upload a version of a > team-maintained package that was prepared by another team member who > themselves aren't a DM yet.
Thanks for pointing out. What I understood is that a DD hasn't given upload privilegies for those packages (because the DM isn't the maintainer of those packages), but still proposed him to sponsor them. I assumed that the DD wasn't aware that it wouldn't be possible, but it seems I was the one who didn't quite understand the question :-) > This obviously cannot be a problem if contributions to the new version > were split 50/50 or even 80/20 between the DM and non-DM, as that is the > nature of a team-maintained package. > > I posit that it shouldn't be a problem for the DM to upload even in the > 0/100 case. If the DM is given trust do to uploads, that implies trust > that the DM will review the uploads, and has the necessary skills to > identify and correct any defects, including those caused by other team > members (DD or not). Yes, that makes sense. > This is just the "formal" view. On a technical level, I don't see what > could stop a DM for going ahead with this regardless, as the only > obstacle could possibly be the Changes line, and the DM could simply > change that before upload. I don't know how dak works on that level, but yes, worst scenario changing the Changes would do it (so something like a team-upload in the end). Bests, -- Tiago
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