Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.4.3-1 of my
package "libdebug". This is an attempt to adopt the package,
turn it into a non-native one, become upstream, bring the Debian
packaging up to the current standards and best practices, and
fix the single outstanding bug. It's a simple library written
in C which provides logging and memory debugging routines,
it has been in Debian since 2002, and it could use a little TLC :)
It builds these binary packages:
libdebug0 - Memory leak detection system and logging library
libdebug0-dev - Development files for the debug library
I'm aware that it would be better for the -dev package to be
named just libdebug-dev, but I've decided not to change that in
my first adoption upload. Of course, if an interested mentor
thinks that it would be preferable to change it right away,
I could do that, too.
The package has been tested with lintian and pbuilder.
The upload would fix these bugs: 437346 (nostrip), 499260 (ITA)
The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libdebug/libdebug_0.4.3-1.dsc
I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.
JFYI, here's my adoption changelog entry:
libdebug (0.4.3-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New maintainer. Closes: #499260
* Override a "shlib calls exit" lintian warning - this is a debugging
library, it is supposed to exit on grave errors.
* Add a symbols file starting at libdebug0-0.4.2 obtained from mole.
* Make this a non-native package.
* Add a watch file.
* Convert the copyright file to the machine-readable format and
add my copyright notice.
* Add the Vcs-Svn and Vcs-Browser control fields.
* Bump the debhelper compatibility version to 7:
- add misc:Depends to the binary package
* Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.1:
- use binary:Version instead of hardcoding the dependencies between
the binary packages
- support "nostrip" in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #437346
- add the Homepage control field
* Build with lots of compiler warning flags.
* Build with -Werror if "werror" is in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
* Enable build hardening unless "nohardening" is in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
* Remove the unused debian/Makefile.
* Remove debian/libdebug0.postinst - dh_makeshlibs takes care of this.
* Do not try to clean the source in the "build" target, it's upstream's
job now.
* Use dh_install instead of dh_movefiles.
* Minimize the rules file using debhelper override targets.
* Pass prefix correctly during the install phase now that upstream
supports DESTDIR in the canonical way.
-- Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> Thu, 28 May 2009 16:02:51 +0300
G'luck,
Peter
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