Sponsorship for removal requests?

[Scott Kitterman]

On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:59:02 +0100 James Westby <jw+debian at jameswestby.net> 
wrote:
>Hi,
>
>We just had a debate on IRC about whether a sponsor is required
>to ACK a removal request before the archive admin's are subscribed.
>
>Most of us thought that was the case, and for good reason, but Michael
>said that he had done removals directly before, so we weren't sure
>if that was just the archive admins not catching it, or we had
>the wrong idea of the policy.
>
>Could someone confirm whether sponsors are needed for removal requests?
>
I think it certainly should be required.  I have also seen cases where it 
wasn't done in the past.  At least one of those cases I ended up asking to 
have the package restored.

Scott K