Bug#874305: RFS: mitlm/0.4.2-1 -- MIT Language Modeling toolkit

[Mo Zhou <lumin@debian.org>]

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Hi Giulio,

I can sponsor this package. However this package looks old and needs
updating before the upload.

1. please have a look and fix the following lintian warnings:
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│  W: mitlm changes: orig-tarball-missing-upstream-signature mitlm_0.4.2.orig.tar.xz
│  W: mitlm source: vcs-deprecated-in-debian-infrastructure vcs-git https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/mitlm.git
│  W: mitlm source: vcs-deprecated-in-debian-infrastructure vcs-browser https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/mitlm.git
│  W: libmitlm1: debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week 2018-09-05 is a Wednesday
│  W: mitlm: debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week 2018-09-05 is a Wednesday
│  W: libmitlm-dev: debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week 2018-09-05 is a Wednesday

For more detailed hints about how to fix them, just run

│
│ lintian -EviI
│

after building this package. Or pass an existing *.changes file to lintian.

Particylarly, the Vcs-* fields should point to Salsa
https://salsa.debian.org/giuliopaci-guest/mitlm

And the latest standards version is 4.2.1 .

2. why is the SOVERSION bump from 0 to 1?
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Has upstream bumped ABI/API?

Besides, I'd suggest add symbols control file for this package such
that ABI changes can be tracked more easily. One will obtain a symbols
list from buildlog after creating an empty .symbols file and rebuild.

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The rest LGTM.