[Debian-med-packaging] bowtie2_2.0.2-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

Alex Mestiashvili alex at biotec.tu-dresden.de
Tue Nov 20 13:53:47 UTC 2012


On 11/19/2012 06:45 PM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> Alex Mestiashvili <alex at biotec.tu-dresden.de> writes:
>   
>> On 11/19/2012 04:02 PM, Debian FTP Masters wrote:
>>     
>>> ACL dm: Carlos Borroto <carlos.borroto at gmail.com> is not an uploader for bowtie2=2.0.0-beta7-1
>>>       
>> I've updated the control file [0].
>> How should I process now ? Should I increase the debian_revision number
>> in order to be able to upload the package ? Or is there a way to
>> re-upload the updated package?
>>     
> You shouldn't use other people's name in the changelog entry if you did
> upload the package and not them: "The maintainer name and email address
> used in the changelog should be the details of the person uploading this
> version."[1]
>
>   [1] <http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-dpkgchangelog>
>
> Once you use your name there the archive should accept the upload if
> there are no other problems.
>
> You might also want to read [2] about recent changes to DM upload
> permissions.
>
>   [2] <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/09/msg00008.html>
>
> Regards,
> Ansgar
>   
I noticed that when I removed Carlos from the Uploaders and rebuild the
package - lintian complained about NMU upload and I changed the
changelog entry as well.
But now I see the the root of the problem comes from the changelog and
not the control file.

Thank you,
Alex



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