> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "classified-ads" That's great! I'm not a DD, so I can't sponsor your package, but I've had a look at it, and here are some things that I've noticed: d/changelog: -This file should only contain Debian-related changes. Upstream changes -You won't be able to upload to unstable at the moment, since it's frozen for jessie. You should change this to "experimental". d/compat: -Debhelper 7 is old. You should switch to 9. d/classified-ads.1: -You should include this with the software, not just in Debian. -You should get rid of the comments explaining what nroff is. -You note that "Upon uninstall of the program, the datafile is left lingering around". You might want to ask someone else, but this seems like bad practice. d/control: -Priority should be "optional", not "extra". -Either fill in the Vcs-* fields, or get rid of them. -You've listed some dependencies twice: once in d/classified-ads.substvars, and once in d/control. -The long description of your package has some spelling/grammatical errors and is a bit short. Perhaps you could take some of the information off your homepage and put it there? d/copyright: -You should use DEP-5 copyright d/docs: -If you don't have any docs, get rid of this file. Otherwise, put them in there. d/README.source: *Delete this file if there is no reason to keep it. d/rules: -You'll need to update this to dh9 syntax. See here for a guide: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dreq.en.html#rules General: -It's a good idea to keep Debian development and upstream development separate. Don't include the debian/ directory with your upstream tarballs. -I don't think that Debian can legally distribute classified-ads, since Nokia has not made the OpenSSL exception. On the other hand, I'm not sure if the LGPL cancels this out. I'm going to ask debian-legal. Good luck getting your package into Debian, Riley Baird
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