Bug#717995: RFS: rawdog/2.16-1 [ITA]

[Adam Sampson <ats@offog.org>]

Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "rawdog".

  Package name    : rawdog
  Version         : 2.16-1
  Upstream Author : Adam Sampson <ats@offog.org> (i.e. me)
  URL             : http://offog.org/code/rawdog/
  License         : GPL-2+
  Section         : web

It builds those binary packages:

  rawdog     - RSS Aggregator Without Delusions Of Grandeur

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

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

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

  dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/r/rawdog/rawdog_2.16-1.dsc

I'm the upstream maintainer of rawdog; I'd like to adopt the existing
package, which was built by Decklin Foster but is currently orphaned.
(I've tried to contact Decklin but had no luck; I've also asked if the
python-apps-team would like it.)

More information about rawdog can be obtained from:

  http://offog.org/code/rawdog/

Changes since the last upload:

  * New maintainer (Closes: #660507)
  * New upstream release (Closes: #651080)
  * Remove Debian patch that replaced feedfinder; this was merged
    upstream and extended in rawdog 2.15. (Closes: #650776, #657206)
  * Depend on python-feedparser, which is no longer bundled with
    upstream rawdog. (Closes: #383422)
  * Recommend python-tidylib.
  * Update package to debhelper 9 (using python2) and Standards-Version
    3.9.4.
  * Update package description.
  * Add a watch file.
  * Put the copyright file into machine-readable form.
  * Install the upstream changelog.

To clone the Git repo for the debian/ directory:

  git clone http://offog.org/git/rawdog-debian.git

Thanks very much,

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Adam Sampson <ats@offog.org>                         <http://offog.org/>