Dear mentors, please consider reviewing and sponsoring this new Rhinote upload. As you can see from the changelog entry reported below, the updated package contains several improvements that would make using Rhinote much better; moreover, a Debian member has already reviewed the patches and found them to be okay. Thank you for your time. On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 10:58:50PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > 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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