Bug#791813: RFS: ipband/0.8.1-4

[Vincent Cheng <vcheng@debian.org>]

Control: tag -1 + moreinfo

On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Mats Erik Andersson
<mats.andersson@gisladisker.se> wrote:
> Package: sponsorship-requests
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear mentors,
>
> I am looking for a sponsor of my package "ipband":
>
>   Package name    : ipband
>   Version         : 0.8.1-4
>   Upstream Author : Andrew Nevynniy <anevynni@russelmetals.com>
>   URL             : http://ipband.sourceforge.net/
>   License         : GPL-2
>   Section         : net
>   Priority        : optional
>
> It builds a single binary package:
>
>   ipband -- daemon for subnet bandwidth monitoring with reporting via email
>
> Package information about this proposal is available at
>
>   http://mentors.debian.net/package/ipband
>
> The package can be downloaded with dget, using a simple invocation:
>
>   dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/i/ipband/ipband_0.8.1-4.dsc
>
> Changes since last upload are:
>
>   * Updating to Standards 3.9.6, compatibility 9.
>     * debian/control: Build depends on debhelper (>= 9).
>     * debian/compat: Updated.
>   * Hardening of executables.
>     + debian/patches/01_fix_makefile.diff: Renamed and updated.
>     + debian/rules: Set and export CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, and LDFLAGS.
>   * Replace the date macro to achieve reproducible builds.
>     + debian/patches/05_reproducible_timestamp.diff: New file.
>     + debian/rules: Update CPPFLAGS.
>   * Set formal user 'ipband' as origin of mail message.
>     + debian/patches/04_check_mailer_strings.diff: Updated.
>   * [lintian] Source the LSB collection of init-functions.
>     + debian/ipband.init: Updated.

A portion of utils.c (starting from line 176) seems to originate from
glibc and is thus copyrighted by the FSF; this should be mentioned in
d/copyright. You may also want to consider updating d/copyright to use
DEP-5 [1] while you're at it.

Regards,
Vincent

[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/