Bug#739653: RFS: liblas/1.7.0+dfsg-3

[Bas Couwenberg <sebastic@xs4all.nl>]

Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal

Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal [important for RC bugs, wishlist for new packages]

Dear mentors,

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

 Package name    : liblas
 Version         : 1.7.0+dfsg-3
 Upstream Author : Howard Butler, Mateusz Loskot, Phil Vachon, Martin Vales & Frank Warmerdam
 URL             : http://liblas.org/
 License         : BSD-3-Clause
 Section         : science

It builds those binary packages:

 liblas-bin    - ASPRS LiDAR data translation toolset
 liblas-c-dev  - ASPRS LiDAR data translation library - C development files
 liblas-c2     - ASPRS LiDAR data translation library - C version
 liblas-dev    - ASPRS LiDAR data translation library - C++ development files
 liblas2       - ASPRS LiDAR data translation library - C++ version
 python-liblas - Python module to use the ASPRS LiDAR data translation library

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

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


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

  dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/libl/liblas/liblas_1.7.0+dfsg-3.dsc

More information about hello can be obtained from http://www.example.com.

Changes since the last upload:

 * Team upload.
 * Update debian watch file with sepwatch changes,
   and handle more common mistakes.
 * Refresh boost patch.
 * Also build python extension, replaces separate source package.
   (closes: #735516)
 * Remove obsolete liblas1.install.
 * Add patch to fix the library version and SONAME.
 * Add lintian overrides for no symbols file,
   symbols are problematic for C++ libraries.
 * Enable verbose build logs.
 * Add patch from python-liblas to fix the library search path.
 * Use pybuild instead of python_distutils buildsystem.
   Thanks Graham Inggs for the patch.
 * Change libtiff build dependency to libtiff-dev only.
   (closes: #736129)
 * Update liblas-dev dependency on libgdal-dev to match the build dependency.
 * Drop shlibs:Depends for -dev packages.
 * Add manpages for liblas-bin & liblas-dev.
   (closes: #645820)
 * Install python examples.


Regards,
 Sebastiaan Couwenberg