Bug#823981: RFS: aiksaurus/1.2.1+dev-0.12-6.3 [RC] [NMU] -- an English-language thesaurus

[Fabian Wolff <fabi.wolff@arcor.de>]

Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: important

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for an update of the aiksaurus package.

The aiksaurus package currently has one RC bug because its
debian/rules file is still using dh_desktop, which has been obsolete
since 2009. I rewrote the rules file so that it now uses a more modern
"dh" style.

I also updated debian/copyright to follow the machine-readable format
and applied a variety of other changes to fix all 4 errors and 70
warnings that Lintian reported.

Here is the build log for amd64:

  https://bitbucket.org/snippets/f-w/eKxrB

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

  https://mentors.debian.net/package/aiksaurus

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

  dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/aiksaurus/aiksaurus_1.2.1+dev-0.12-6.3.dsc

Changes since the last upload:

  * Rewrite and clean up debian/rules (Closes: #817290 #821961).
  * Fix all Lintian warnings and errors.
  * Install libAiksaurus[GTK]-1.2.so instead of libAiksaurus[GTK].so.
  * Upgrade to source format 3.0 (quilt) and Standards version 3.9.8.

The change listed as the third bullet point was necessary to fix a
certain Lintian warning. This did indeed change the soname, but since
aiksaurus currently has no reverse dependencies, I do not think that
this is a problem.

Regards,
Fabian Wolff