Bug#849267: ITP: mate-equake-applet -- Mate panel applet which monitors earthquakes

[Jeroen van Aart <android@e-quake.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Jeroen van Aart <android@e-quake.org>

* Package name    : mate-equake-applet
  Version         : 1.3.8
  Upstream Author : Jeroen van Aart <android@e-quake.org>
* URL             : http://www.e-quake.org
* License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : Mate panel applet which monitors earthquakes

mate-equake-plugin is a panel applet for the mate panel which monitors
earthquakes and displays an update each time a new earthquake occurs. In
addition it can show alerts when heavy earthquakes have happened, display
maps and webpages with more information, produce lists of hourly and daily
earthquakes and update a handy signature file you can use in your emails.
Many features are user configurable.

This is a direct port for the mate desktop environment of an already existing 
debian package, xfce4-equake-plugin, made by the same author. It has all the
same functionality. Equake was originally released as a gnome2 panel applet but
was never offered to be included in Debian because gnome2 was deprecated. Since
mate is a fork of gnome2 it made sense to port it.

I will need a sponsor for this package to possibly be included in debian and
will file a separate "RFS" bug for that.