Le mardi 02 septembre 2014 à 21:51 +0100, Sébastien Villemot a écrit : > Le mardi 02 septembre 2014 à 22:20 +0200, Thomas Weber a écrit : > > On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 08:46:36AM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > > > It is prepared in Git, please upload it. It fixes RC Bug#759741. > > > > I have uploaded it, but Lintian warned me about my ignorance towards > > this being an NMU. This raises the question how I should handle such > > uploads in the future? Using an NMU version number seems wrong, as this > > is in fact an upload for the maintainer. > > > > Any suggestions? > > In my opinion the best way to handle this situation would have been to > put Rafael's name in the trailer of the changelog, since this upload is > 100% his work. Then you just sign the upload with your key. This is > called a sponsored upload, see §7.5.1 of the Developers Reference. > > The alternative is to do a team upload, by putting the name of the > uploading DD in the changelog trailer and by putting "Team Upload" as > the first item in the changelog (similar to NMUs); see §5.11.7 of the > Developers Reference. But I think that team uploads should be restricted > to the case where you effectively contribute to an upload (i.e. by more > than just signing it). I realize that what this particular upload has actually several contributors (Rafael, Thomas and myself). So a team upload would have rather be the best option IMO. -- .''`. Sébastien Villemot : :' : Debian Developer `. `' http://www.dynare.org/sebastien `- GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594
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