ITS (Re: RFS: libsvg-perl)

[Bart Martens <bartm@knars.be>]

On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 09:47 +0200, David Paleino wrote:
> Dear mentors,
> 
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libsvg-perl".

I'll sponsor this package.  I'll contact David via private e-mail.

> 
> * Package name    : libsvg-perl
>   Version         : 2.33-1
>   Upstream Author : Ronan Oger <ronan@roasp.com>
> * URL             : http://search.cpan.org/~ronan/SVG-2.33/
> * License         : GNU GPL, Artistic (same as Perl)
>   Section         : perl
> 
> It builds this binary package:
> libsvg-perl - perl module to generate SVG images
> 
> The package is lintian clean.
> 
> The upload would fix this bug: 429387
> 
> Moreover, this bug is blocking the ITP for libsvg-graph-perl, #429163
> 
> The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
> - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libsvg-perl
> - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian
> unstable main contrib non-free
> - dget
> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libsvg-perl/libsvg-perl_2.33-1.dsc
> 
> Before asking for upload, I need some help on this package. The
> Makefile.PL present upstream generates some man pages, which lintian
> complains about. In particular, those manpages are generated from
> ISO-8859-1 files, while on my system I have UTF-8. Therefore I
> substituted the "missing characters" with the proper groff escapes
> (lintian suggested looking at 'man groff_char'). The problem is that
> the resulting man pages actually _show_ the escapes, not the resulting
> characters (i.e. show \[sc] instead of §). Is there anything I can do
> about this?
> 
> Besides this, I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.
> 
> Kind regards
>  David Paleino
>