Comment 4 for bug 294194

I cannot reproduce this bug personally, can you please tell me what command you are issuing?

I usually try requesting a sync of gnupg to test my privileges:

jpds@paer> ./requestsync gnupg jaunty 1.05 ~/srv/ubuntu/ubuntu-dev-tools
You are not a member (direct or indirect) of the 'ubuntu-core-dev' team on Launchpad.
Your sync request shall require an approval by a member of the 'ubuntu-main-sponsors'
team, who shall be subscribed to this bug report.
This must be done before it can be processed by a member of the Ubuntu Archive team.
If the above is correct please press Enter, otherwise please press Ctrl-C to stop this script now
and check the cookie file at: /home/jpds/.lpcookie.txt
^CAbort requested. No sync request filed.

The automatic sponsorship testing basically checks the user is a member of the "ubuntu-core-dev" or "ubuntu-dev". This is done by opening the page with urllib and checking if the page contains the string: "You are not a member of this team". If the page has the text, sponsorship is set to true.

(I hope to make this easier by using launchpadlib one day).