[Pkg-octave-devel] [RFU] octave-odepkg 0.8.4-2

[Sébastien Villemot]

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.

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