On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 10:43 +0100, Václav Ovsík wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.0.3-2 > of my package "ustr". > > It builds these binary packages: > libustr-1.0-1 - Micro string library: shared library > libustr-1.0-1-dbg - Micro string library: debugging symbols > libustr-dev - Micro string library: development stuff "Micro string library: development headers" would be preferable. > libustr-doc - Micro string library: documentation > > Description: ustr (Micro string library) is a string API for C. It has > tiny overhead over just plain strdup(), is much safer, is easier to > use, is faster for many operations, can be used with read-only or > automatically allocated data. You don't even need to link to the > library to use it (so there are no dependencies). Good, that's the kind of RFS I like to see - just one thing missing, this is an existing package: http://packages.qa.debian.org/u/ustr.html That can be inferred from the bug fix description but the knowledge of whether this is a new package (with an ITP) or an existing package is very useful to a potential sponsor so it is as well to put it in a prominent place in the RFS. > > Upstream author: James Antill > > Homepage: http://www.and.org/ustr/ > > This library is the requisite for latest libsemanage, the library of > the SELinux code suite. ... and already in Debian. (this is the most natural place for the missing comment to appear). > > Ustr is packaged using CDBS. Package was rebuild using pbuilder. > Lintian v1.23.43 on ustr_1.0.3-2_i386.changes reports nothing. > > Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=users/zito-guest/pkg-ustr.git > Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/~zito-guest/pkg-ustr.git > > The upload would fix an important bug 465005 > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=465005 > - bashism in the utility script ustr-import. > It also cleans manpages a bit. > > The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: > - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/u/ustr > - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free > - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/u/ustr/ustr_1.0.3-2.dsc > > I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. > I'll review it this week. (Bit busy with Emdebian today). -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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