Bug#707646: RFS: postnews/0.5.3-4 [ITA] -- Post to NNTP server via command line

["Robert J. Clay" <rjclay@gmail.com>]

Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal
Submitter: jame@rocasa.us

Dear mentors,

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

* Package name    : postnews
  Version         : 0.5.3-4
  Upstream Author : Michael Waschbüsch <waschbuesch@users.sourceforge.net>
* URL              :  http://sourceforge.net/projects/postnews/
* License         : GPL-2+
  Section          : net

It builds those binary packages:

    postnews   - Post Usenet articles via NNTP from the command line

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

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

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

    dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/postnews/postnews_0.5.3-4.dsc

More information about postnews can be obtained from:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/postnews/

  Changes since the last upload:

  * New Maintainer. (Closes: #693232)
  * Rewrite debian/copyright according to DEP-5.
  * Add a debian/watch file to the packaging.
  * Changes to debian/control:
    - Update Standards-Version to 3.9.4.
    - Add a Homepage entry for Postnews.
    - Add '${misc:Depends}' to the package Depends.
    - Set Robert James Clay <jame@rocasa.us> as package Maintainer.
    - Update debhelper Build-Depends to be '>= 8.0.0'.
  * Changes to debian/rules:
    - Correct 'dh_clean -k' to 'dh_prep' in install target.
    - Add the missing build-arch and build-indep targets.
  * Update debhelper compatibility in debian/compat to '8'.
  * Explicitly set Debian source format as 3.0 (quilt).
  * Add the file debian/patches/Correct_shabang_line.patch.


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Robert J. Clay
jame@rocasa.us
rjclay@gmail.com