Re: Bug#748591: RFS: gtkspellmm/3.0.3+dfsg-1 [ITP]

[Vincent Cheng <vcheng@debian.org>]

Hi Philip,

On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Philip Rinn <rinni@inventati.org> wrote:
> Package: sponsorship-requests
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Dear mentors,
>
>   I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gtkspellmm". This package is a
> dependency of gimagereader, a GTK front-end for tesseract-ocr, which I also
> package.
>
>  * Package name    : gtkspellmm
>    Version         : 3.0.3+dfsg-1
>    Upstream Author : Sandro Mani <manisandro@gmail.com>
>  * URL             : http://gtkspell.sourceforge.net
>  * License         : GPL2+
>    Section         : libs
>
>   It builds those binary packages:
>
>     libgtkspellmm-3.0-0 - C++ wrapper library for GtkSpell (shared libraries)
>     libgtkspellmm-3.0-dev - C++ wrapper library for GtkSpell (development
> files)
>     libgtkspellmm-3.0-doc - C++ wrappers for GtkSpell (documentation)
>
>   To access further information about this package, please visit the following
> URL:
>
>   http://mentors.debian.net/package/gtkspellmm
>
>
>   Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command:
>
>     dget -x
> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gtkspellmm/gtkspellmm_3.0.3+dfsg-1.dsc
>
>   There is also a git repository in collab-maint:
>
>     http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/gtkspellmm.git;a=summary
>
>
> The package is Lintian clean but as it's my first library I'd be happy to get
> some feedback.
>

Have you tried contacting the Debian GNOME team [1] (which maintains
similar packages [2]) to see if anyone might be interested in your
package? It's generally a lot easier to find willing sponsors and get
your package reviewed if you maintain your package in a team.

Regards,
Vincent

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianGnome
[2] http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gtkspell3.html