Re: Sponsorship request: frobby and cohomcalg

[Doug Torrance <dtorrance@piedmont.edu>]

On 08/27/2017 03:56 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 09:31:30AM +0200, Julien Puydt wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Le 26/08/2017 à 00:10, Doug Torrance a écrit :
> > > A week or so ago, I added frobby and cohomcalg to the Sponsoring of
> > > Blends page, but there has not been a response yet.  Would anyone be
> > > willing to look at either of these packages?
> > >
> > > https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-science/packages/frobby.git
> > > https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-science/packages/cohomcalg.git
>
> Hmmm, I did not got notification from wiki.debian.org. :-(
>   
> > you could also use mentors.debian.net : I have good experience with the
> > sponsorship-request system.
> >
> > I had a quick look:
> > - d/watch: we're now up to version 4 ;
>
> I personally use version=4 just to mark that I have recently verified
> the watch file.  In principle version=3 is fine and would not stop me
> from sponsoring.
>
> > - d/control: I would have separated in two paragraphs the explanation of
> > what frobby is scientifically and what it is as software.
> >
> > apart from that, latest dh and std-ver, patches with headers...
>
> I agree here as well but fixing the RC bug #872020 motivated me to do a
> quick upload.
>   
> > I haven't looked too deeply : as I'm not a DD, I can't sponsor anyway...
>
> Hope you become a DD soon. ;-)
>
> I hope that wiki notifications will work soon again to make this method
> working as reliably as it worked before.

Thanks, Julien and Andreas!

I went ahead and bumped the uscan version in git for the next upload. 
(This will likely be soon, as the i386 build is still failing...)

The Description is pretty abysmal.  I'll look into that soon as well.

Have a good one,
Doug