I asked for help on the debian mentors list and was indeed helped! Jonathan wrote back:
IANADD and can't upload for you, but I can give you some feedback to get it into shape for a sponsor. At the moment there are some severe problems with it:You have three lintian warnings because you haven't used your full name as the maintainer and in the changelog, and because your tag line in the changelog doesn't match your name and email in your debian/control file.You haven't specified your ITP bug number in debian/changelog.debian/control: you should be working to standards version 3.8.0. See [1] for a checklist.You should use your full name in debian/copyright (just as if you were making a legal assertion to it).debian/README.Debian: again, use your full name. debian/rules: get rid of comment cruft, like the fact that this is a sample script.Your watch file doesn't work [2].These are fundamental problems and need fixing before a sponsor will consider your package. If you need help, you're welcome to ask for it.[1] /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt[2] man uscanI won't get to these issues until the next release of Nexista, but hopefully I'll get it right then.