Bug#673096: RFS: figlet/2.2.4-1

[Jonathan McCrohan <jmccrohan@gmail.com>]

Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal

Dear Mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "figlet"

* Package name    : figlet
  Version         : 2.2.4-1
  Upstream Author : Glenn Chappell, Ian Chai, John Cowan
* URL             : http://www.figlet.org/
* License         : BSD-3
  Section         : text

It builds those binary packages:

  figlet     - Make large character ASCII banners out of ordinary text

To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL:

http://mentors.debian.net/package/figlet


Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command:

  dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/figlet/figlet_2.2.4-1.dsc

One can also check out the package repository using git:

  git clone http://git.dereenigne.org/pkg-figlet.git

More information about figlet can be obtained from http://www.figlet.org.

Changes since the last upload:

figlet (2.2.4-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release. (closes: #617422)
    - Relicensed as BSD; figlet can move back to main \o/
  * Improve packaging
    - Update S-V to 3.9.3
    - Bump Debhelper to v9
    - Switch to dpkg-source 3.0 (quilt) format
    - Switch to dh-style debian/rules (closes: #672320)
    - Update package description (closes: #557254)
    - Update debian/copyright (closes: #436302)
    - Fix moolets bashism (closes: #530082)
    - Move figlet manpage to alternatives system (closes: 403665)
    - Add watchfile
    - Add Homepage to debian/control
    - Remove references to depreciated figfonts(-cjk) packages
    - Remove local copies of man pages (merged upstream)
  * Add myself as co-maintainer

 -- Jonathan McCrohan <jmccrohan@gmail.com>  Mon, 14 May 2012 18:33:13 +0100

Two points of information:

1)	This upload allows figlet to move back from non-free to main. I have
	received confirmation on both debian-legal [1] and the figlet
	mailinglist [2] that figlet is DFSG-compliant.

2)	I am not hijacking this package. I have been in contact with the
	existing maintainer and he his happy for me to be co-maintainer.

Thanks,
Jon

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2012/05/msg00022.html
[2] http://www.plig.net/mailman/private/figlet/2012-May/000274.html