Hi Sebastian, thanks for working on this package. I think it is ok to switch to a fork as the original software is not developed any more. Some notes/questions on your package: 1) Remove changelog.new. 2) Use VCS for maintaining the package and uncomment corresponding lines in control-file. 3) Current Standards-version is 3.9.4 4) Convert copyright-file to a DEP-5 format, who is copyright-holder after 2008? 5) What is debian/rules.small? If it works, why do you keep an old version? If you plan to use the current debian/rules, it should be cleaned also, using override_dh-commands. 6) Lintian's complaining on hardening should be investigated, not just simply overridden. 7) tilda.dirs, seems, useless. 8) Clean watch-file. It should be 3-lines long. 9) Your package fails to build: ================ cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.guess config.guess dh_autoreconf Can't exec "autopoint": No such file or directory at /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 345. autoreconf: failed to run autopoint: No such file or directory autoreconf: autopoint is needed because this package uses Gettext dh_autoreconf: autoreconf -f -i returned exit code 1 make: *** [config.status] Error 2 dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2 ================= 10) Do you really need debian/source/options? Cheers, Anton On 03/02/2013 02:23 PM, Lanoxx wrote: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: normal > > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "tilda" > > * Package name : tilda > Version : 1.1.4-1 > Upstream Author : Sebastian Geiger <lanoxx@gmx.net> > * URL : https://github.com/lanoxx/tilda > * License : GPL-2 > Section : x11 > > It builds those binary packages: > > tilda - Gtk based drop down terminal for Linux and Unix > > To access further information about this package, please visit the > following URL: > > http://mentors.debian.net/package/tilda > > > Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: > > dget -x > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/tilda/tilda_1.1.4-1.dsc > > More information about tilda can be obtained from > https://github.com/lanoxx/tilda. > > I have already spawned a discussion about switching to a new upstream > location and becoming new maintainer at this bug #695574 [1]. > > Please also see bug #583248 [2], which states that the current > maintainer is MIA since 2010-05-26. > > Note that I'm targeting unstable not experimental, because I believe > that given the amount of bugs my package fixes makes this package more > stable than the one which is currently in unstable. > > Changes since the last upload: > > tilda (1.1.4-1) unstable; urgency=low > > * New upstream release (Closes: #695574, #692904) > * Added a watch file (Closes: #501739) > * Use x-www-browser as default (Closes: #552505) > * Use word characters setting, thanks to Liu Yubao > <yubao.liu@gmail.com> (Closes: #506855) > * Remove deprecated dpatch and upgrade to packaging format "3.0 quilt" > and update to Standards-Version to 3.9.3 and debhelper to 9, > thanks to Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> (Closes: #664358) > * New maintainer (Sebastian Geiger), thanks to Davide Truffa for his > previous work (Closes: #583248) > * Update tilda.desktop file to be compatible with freedesktop.org, > thanks to Jekyll Wu (Closes: #678129) > > -- Sebastian Geiger <lanoxx@gmx.net> Sat, 23 Feb 2013 12:06:09 +0100 > > Regards, > Sebastian Geiger > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=695574 > [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=583248 > >
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