Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "lopsub": * Package name : lopsub Version : 1.0.2 Upstream Author : Andre Noll <maan@tuebingen.mpg.de> * URL : http://people.tuebingen.mpg.de/maan/lopsub/ * License : (L)GPLv3 Section : libdevel It builds the following package: lopsup - The Long Option Parser for Subcommands To access further information about this package, please visit the above URL. About lopsub: It's not a new idea to provide a library for parsing command line options as there are libargtable2 and gengetopt which are conceptually similar. Nevertheless, here is yet another option parser which was written already some years ago. Compared to the existing option parsers, lopsub offers a couple of additional features, for example support for subcommands and direct man page generation. It is actively maintained, yet mature, and the API is stable and well documented. Although no debian packages use the lopsub library so far, it makes sense to get this in because (a) it makes life easier for people who want to use software that depends on lopsub [1], and (b) it paves the way to debianize those software packages as well. Moreover, lopsub is tiny and has no build dependencies other than a C compiler, flex and m4. The binary package has no dependency other than libc. This is my first attempt to get a package sponsored, and also my first attempt to create a debian package. I've tried to address the issues listed in the docs and I believe the package is ready for upload. However, there are still some warnings from lintian I don't know how to deal with. While there is certainly some room for improvement, I'm confident that the remaining issues can be addressed easily. You can grab a copy by running git clone git://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/lopsub.git This will get you three branches: master, pu, and t/debian The t/debian branch contains a single commit on top of master which adds the debian/ directory with the usual files in it. The commands git checkout origin/t/debian dpkg-buildpackage should build the debian package as expected. This has been tested on debian-9 and debian-10. This package is known to compile and work on Debian and Ubuntu Linux (x86_64, x86_32, armv6l), FreeBSD-12.0 (x86_64) and NetBSD-8.0 (x86_64). Thanks Andre --- [1] http://people.tuebingen.mpg.de/maan/ -- Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology Max-Planck-Ring 5, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. Phone: (+49) 7071 601 829 http://people.tuebingen.mpg.de/maan/
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