Bug#766833: RFS: fuzzylite/5.0+dfsg-1

[Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@email.de>]

Package: sponsorship-requests

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "fuzzylite"

 * Package name    : fuzzylite
   Version         : 5.0+dfsg-1
   Upstream Author : Juan Rada-Vilela
 * URL             : http://www.fuzzylite.com/cpp/
 * License         : LGPL3
   Section         : misc

It builds those binary packages:

 fuzzylite  - fuzzy logic control binary
 libfuzzylite-dev - fuzzy logic control development headers
 libfuzzylite5.0 - fuzzy logic control shared library

To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL:

http://mentors.debian.net/package/fuzzylite

Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command:

  dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/fuzzylite/fuzzylite_5.0+dfsg-1.dsc

I'm CC-ing the Debian Games list because fuzzylite is required for
packaging vcmi, a free reimplementation of Heroes of Might and Magic 3.
See ITP #742077.

Vcmi includes an ancient copy of fuzzylite with custom patches. To make
vcmi fit for Debian, the embedded copy of fuzzylite has to be removed.
Unfortunately, the fuzzylite API changed considerably between 2012 and
now. Thus, porting vcmi to current fuzzylite 5.0 is a non-trivial
effort.

Luckily, Juan Rada-Vilela, the author of fuzzylite volunteered to do
this porting task because he is interested in getting fuzzylite into
Debian and he wishes to see more users of his library. I now forwarded
his work to vcmi upstream and they say they will try to get fuzzylite
5.0 support into their next release.

With this development I'm now looking for sponsors for fuzzylite 5.0.
Having it in Debian is an important step to convince vcmi upstream to
remove their embedded copy. To quote "Not much point in doing this until
at least some of somewhat popular distros will have their own copy of
fuzzylite" (http://bugs.vcmi.eu/view.php?id=1886)

It would be great to find a sponsor for my package and get that and vcmi
into Debian because Heroes of Might and Magic is a fantastic game and
vcmi not only makes its engine free as in freedom but also adds tons of
additional features such as modding capabilities to the engine.

Thanks!

cheers, josch