Bug#903270: RFS: sharness/1.0.0-1 [ITP] shell library for running tests

[Lars Kruse <devel@sumpfralle.de>]

Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal

Dear mentors,

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

 Package name    : sharness
 Version         : 1.0.0-1
 Upstream Author : Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
 URL             : https://github.com/chriscool/sharness
 License         : GPL-2 or later
 Section         : devel

It builds those binary packages:

  sharness   - shell library for automated tests with TAP output

Sharness is used by a few Debian packages as part of their DEP8 tests
(via autopkgtest):
  * gearmand
  * git-reintegrate
  * git-remote-bzr
  * git-remote-hg
  * hiera-eyaml
  * jemalloc
  * mod-gearman
  * munin
  * pass-otp
  * puppet-lint
  * puppet-module-puppetlabs-concat
  * puppet-module-puppetlabs-ntp
  * puppet-module-puppetlabs-stdlib
(the list was assembled via https://codesearch.debian.net)

Currently these packages embed a copy of the sharness.sh file below
debian/tests.
I will file bug reports against these packages (including patches) after
the sharness package is available, in order to help them getting rid of
their embedded code copies.

I am part of the munin packaging team, thus the munin package would
benefit immediately from this new package.

I plan to maintain the sharness package for the foreseeable future.

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

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


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

  dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/sharness/sharness_1.0.0-1.dsc


Cheers,
Lars