Bug#677013: RFS: time/1.7-24 -- The GNU time program for measuring cpu resource usage
Package: sponsorship-requests
Owner: Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>
I'm opening this RFS on behalf of Bob Proulx who owns ITA 652670.
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 11:16:53PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Hi Bart,
>
> > How is progress on this ITA ?
>
> Can I admit that it is a little frustrating? I am not a DD and
> therefore the package needs to be sponsored. I have had various DDs
> sponsor packages before. But I have been striking out going through
> my list. The ones I have contacted have all become busy with life and
> have fallen out of contact.
>
> My version of the package is available here and is signed with my
> key. Since you asked would you feel like sponsoring it?
>
> http://www.proulx.com/~bob/debian/pool/sid/main/time/
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 98294 Apr 10 16:39 time_1.7-24.diff.gz
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 987 Apr 10 16:53 time_1.7-24.dsc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 10372 Apr 10 16:39 time_1.7-24_amd64.build
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 2300 Apr 10 16:53 time_1.7-24_amd64.changes
> -rw-r--r-- 1 32640 Apr 10 16:39 time_1.7-24_amd64.deb
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 103066 Aug 9 1997 time_1.7.orig.tar.gz
>
> Here is the current changelog entry and list of closed bugs.
>
> Description:
> time - program for measuring CPU resource usage
> Closes: 492669 542469 592620 598099 617935 649402 652670 663260
> Changes:
> time (1.7-24) unstable; urgency=low
> .
> * New maintainer. Thanks Tollef Fog Heen. (Closes: #652670)
> * Thanks to previous maintainers for all of their efforts!
> * Acknowledge NMU for Build-Depends automake. Thanks Salvatore
> Bonaccorso. (Closes: #592620)
> * Update to new standards version 3.9.3.
> * Update to new compat level 8.
> * Use new DEP5 copyright file format.
> * Use dh_installinfo instead of install-info from postinst scripts.
> Thanks Riku Saikkonen, Hans Spaans. (Closes: #617935, #598099)
> * ru_maxrss is reported in KBytes not pages. Thanks Richard Kettlewell,
> Sven Hartrumpf, Miles Bader. (Closes: #649402)
> * Update bug report email address in README. Thanks Faheem Mitha.
> (Closes: #542469)
> * Improve capitalization in short description. Thanks Filipus
> Klutiero. (Closes: #492669)
> * Fix man page roff formatting. Thanks Bjarni Ingi Gislason.
> (Closes: #663260)
>
> Previously maintainer scripts were used for install-info. Those
> scripts have been removed from the new package. I converted it to
> using dh_installinfo. That means that the new package doesn't have
> any explicit maintainer scripts, those are now removed, and now uses
> the dpkg install-info triggers. Which also requires a dependency
> added of "dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info" to the new package.
>
> So on the whole I would say that (if uploaded) the package would be in
> improved over the one currently in the archive.
>
> Bob
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