Re: RFS: pmatch
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Antonio Terceiro
<terceiro@softwarelivre.org> wrote:
> (I am not subcribed to -mentors)
>
> Hello Tomasz,
>
> Tomasz Muras escreveu isso aí:
>> Dear mentors,
>>
>> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "pmatch".
>>
>> * Package name : pmatch
>> Version : 0.4.0-1
>> Upstream Author : Tomasz Muras
>> * URL : http://pmatch.rubyforge.org/
>> * License : GPL v3
>> Section : utils
>>
>> It builds these binary packages:
>> pmatch - Duplicate finder and removal tool
>>
>> The package appears to be lintian clean.
>>
>> The upload would fix these bugs: 632450
>>
>> I'm an upstream author of the package and DM - after review and few
>> uploads I plan to maintain the package myself. Packaging is fairly
>> simple - there is really only one ruby script that needs to be
>> packaged (plus accompanying files). My motivation for creating and
>> packaging this utility is lack of the functionality I required- see
>> pmatch page and ITP bug for more details.
>>
>> The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
>> - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/pmatch
>> - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable
>> main contrib non-free
>> - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/pmatch/pmatch_0.4.0-1.dsc
>>
>> I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.
>
> Would you be willing to maintain this packaging inside the Ruby team? If
> so, please request membership for the pkg-ruby-extras project on alioth.
I'm not interested in joining the Ruby team just yet - thanks.
> A few notes about your package:
>
> You should not depend or require rubygems. Everything you need is
> already in Debian.
Fixed.
> Your debian/docs is empty; you should probably remove it.
Removed.
> The manpage you wrote is inside debian/, but since you are the upstream
> author you could probably distribute it for everyone else besides
> Debian.
Good point, moved.
Thank you very much for your review Antonio - much appreciated. I've
uploaded a new version of the package to the same location on mentors.
cheers,
Tomasz Muras
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