RFS: obdgpslogger [ITP #580176]

[Gary Briggs <chunky@icculus.org>]

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "obdgpslogger". I have uploaded
this a couple times previously, but not yet received any response. This
RFS corresponds to a new package that meets newer packaging & lintian
guidelines.

The advice given to me in #debian-mentors was to ping this mailing list
again; it has been a couple months since my last request.

* Package name    : obdgpslogger
  Version         : 0.15-1
  Upstream Author : Gary Briggs <chunky@icculus.org> [myself]
* URL             : http://icculus.org/obdgpslogger/
* License         : GPLv2+
  Section         : science

It builds these binary packages:
obdgpslogger - Suite of tools to log OBDII and GPS data

The package appears to be lintian clean.

My motivation for maintaining this package is: This has been my pet
project for a while, now. I'm the upstream maintainer, and I'd like to
get my package into the debian repositories. There are no packages in
debian for users to enjoy OBDII right now, and I feel that my software
is among the better tools for the job.

In #debian-mentors, it was noted that since this package is usually used
with a hardware dongle, it may be harder to find a mentor. This package
contains a full software emulator of the dongle, called obdsim. A simple
way to execute it is "obdsim -o" which launches the sim, and then
attaches logger to it with debug spam turned on.


The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/o/obdgpslogger
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free
- dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/o/obdgpslogger/obdgpslogger_0.15-1.dsc

I would be glad if someone could become my mentor for this and hopefully
future packages.

Thank-you very much for your time,
Gary