Bug#1061187: RFS: html2text/2.2.3-2 -- advanced HTML to text converter

[Bruno Naibert <bruno.naibert@gmail.com>]

Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "html2text":

 * Package name     : html2text
   Version          : 2.2.3-2
   Upstream contact : https://github.com/grobian/html2text/issues
 * URL              : https://github.com/grobian/html2text
 * License          : GPL-2+, GPL-3+ with Bison exception
 * Vcs              : https://salsa.debian.org/debian/html2text
   Section          : web

The source builds the following binary packages:

  html2text - advanced HTML to text converter

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

  https://mentors.debian.net/package/html2text/

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

  dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/h/html2text/html2text_2.2.3-2.dsc

Changes since the last upload:

 html2text (2.2.3-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Boyuan Yang ]
   * New upstream version 2.2.3. (Closes: #963701)
   * debian/watch: Fix monitoring script.
   * debian/control: Bump Standards-Version to 4.6.2..
   * debian/README.source: Dropped, completely useless.
   * debian/rules: Use dpkg buildtools.mk to provide CC.
   * debian/docs: Refresh and rename to html2text.docs.
   * debian/patches/:
     - 100-fix-makefile.patch: Dropped, upstream migrated to autotools.
     - 110-triplet-cc.patch: Dropped, ditto.
     - 200-close-files-inside-main-loop.patch: Dropped. Program rewritten
       in cpp, patch no longer applicable. Besides, this patch is almost
       meaningless given html2text does not execute long.
     - 400-remove-builtin-http-support.patch: Dropped. We do not add
       extra patches to diverge from upstream development.
     - 500-utf8-support.patch: Dropped, upstream has utf8 support by default.
 .
   [ Bruno Naibert de Campos ]
   * Removed Debian customizations. Consequently:
       - debian/control: Removed information about in the long description.
       - debian/NEWS: Added information about this change.
       - debian/patches/: Removed:
           ~ 510-disable-backspaces.patch.
           ~ 611-recognize-input-encoding.patch.
           ~ 630-recode-output-to-locale-charset.patch.
       - debian/README.Debian: No longer needed.
   * Removed specific script for testing. Consequently:
       - debian/tests/runtests: Removed.
       - debian/rules: Removed override_dh_auto_test.
   * debian/copyright:
       - Removed a comment from the first copyright block.
       - Updated the packaging and upstream copyright years.
   * debian/examples: Updated file path.
   * debian/html2text.1: Removed. Manpage added by upstream.
   * debian/html2text.docs: added the upstream HISTORY file.
   * debian/manpages: Updated manpages location.
   * debian/NEWS: Added information about removing Debian customizations.
   * debian/patches/:
       - The upstream fixed some points in source code. Consequently, removed:
           ~ 550-skip-numbers-in-html-tag-attributes.patch.
           ~ 600-multiple-meta-tags.patch.
           ~ 800-replace-zeroes-with-null.patch.
           ~ 810-fix-deprecated-conversion-warnings.patch.
           ~ 900-complete-utf8-entities-table.patch.
           ~ 950-validate-width-parameter.patch.
           ~ 960-fix-utf8-mode-quadratic-runtime.patch.
           ~ 970-fix-arg-parsing.patch.
           ~ 980-catch-alloc-err.patch.
   * debian/rules:
       - Removed override_dh_installman. The upstream fixed the source
         code.
       - Removed no more needed override_dh_auto_clean and
         override_dh_auto_install.
   * debian/source/lintian-overrides:
       - Added override a false positive.
       - Updated renamed tag.
   * debian/tests/control: Updated tests to be compliant with the new upstream
     version.

Regards,
-- 
  Bruno Naibert de Campos