Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package "rhinote"
* Package name : rhinote
Version : 0.7.4-2
Upstream Author : Marv Boyes <greyspace@tuxfamily.org>
* URL : http://rhinote.tuxfamily.org/
* License : GPL-2+
Section : x11
It builds those binary packages:
rhinote - virtual sticky-notes for your desktop
To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL:
http://mentors.debian.net/package/rhinote
Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command:
dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/r/rhinote/rhinote_0.7.4-2.dsc
More information about rhinote can be obtained from http://rhinote.tuxfamily.org/ .
Changes since the last upload:
* 001-simplify-imports.diff:
- improve the way modules are imported.
* 002-use-secure-printfile.diff:
- avoid potential symlink attacks and cluttering the user's home.
* 003-test-for-external-commands.diff:
- ensure external commands are available before calling them.
* 004-use-popen.diff:
- replace os.system() with the more secure subprocess.Popen().
* 005-support-lp.diff:
- add support for the lp command in addition to lpr.
* 006-set-print-job-name.diff:
- provide a descriptive name for the print job.
* 007-set-class-name.diff:
- set application name for use by window managers.
* Simplify Depends: to cups-client | lpr.
* Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.3 (no changes needed).
The software has been heavily patched after Paul Wise has reviewed it[1]
and found a bunch of issues with upstream’s code. He later took a look
at the patches[2] and found them to be okay.
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2012/01/msg00579.html
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2012/02/msg00077.html
--
Andrea Bolognani <eof@kiyuko.org>
Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected.
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