Re: Looking for a sponsor for translate-docformat
> > I'm looking for a sponsor for the package translate-docformat which is
> > orphaned.
> >
> > Description: any-to-any document translation system
> >
> > This is a command-line front end to many document format translation
> > programs to facilitate the translation of documents from
> > one format to another.
> >
> > Currently it supports major formats like the docbook, linuxdoc, debiandoc,
> > and TeX, translating to HTML and ps and text.
> >
> > If you are interested you can take a look at:
> > http://studwww.ugent.be/~lukclaes/debian/
> >
> Hi, I've had a look at this. It's generally okay and I will be happy to
> sponsor it for you.
>
> There are just two points I'd like to clear up first:
>
> 1: Why is it a Debian native package? I know that it already *was* a
> Debian native package before it was orphaned, but should it still be?
> I personally don't see any reason not to split it to diff.gz and
> orig.tar.gz (except *possibly* that it's such a small package anyway,
> but that's not a good enough reason to keep it Debian native IMO). If
> you can come up with a decent rationale for this, then it really
> doesn't matter, but I'd like to hear the rationale. I know it has
> fairly debian specific uses (debiandoc-sgml) but should it really be
> a Debian-only package?
Take a look at http://studwww.ugent.be/~lukclaes/debian. Any comments on
the split are welcome because I do not know if it is all right.
> 2:
> N: Processing source package translate-docformat (version 0.5) ...
> W: translate-docformat source: out-of-date-standards-version 3.5.6
> N:
> N: The source package refers to a 'Standards-Version' that is starting to
> N: get out of date, compared to current Policy. You can safely ignore
> N: this warning, but please consider updating the package to current
> N: Policy.
>
> We're up to version 3.5.10 of policy now as I recall. You should think
> about going through and making sure the whole package adheres to latest
> policy and bump the standards version.
> This isn't a bar to me uploading it, but it's something you should be aware
> of.
I know. I will handle it soon. It is my first package and I like to have a
sponsored upload first.
Kind regards
Luk
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