Bug#723626:

[Tobias Frost <tobi@frost.de>]

Am Samstag, den 21.09.2013, 07:45 -0400 schrieb Jon Daley:
> >> Yes, I saw the debian-lintian errors.  And I can take a look at
> those - I
> >> wanted to see if I had the packaging procedure down correctly
> before
> >> attacking those.  (and those issues have been around for years, so
> I
> >> wasn't making anything worse by not touching them yet)
> >
> > Well, a lintian-clean package attracts more sponsors :)
> > And as a maintainer you have not too much be afraid to make you
> package
> > worse but brave to improve it to the state of the art.
>         Yeah, I get it.  I guess I wanted to make sure there was going
> to 
> be a sponsor before I spent that time.  I've used this package for
> years 
> without a maintainer by just modifying the source. 

Hi Jon,

I should be more clear in my conclusion: As said, the package is in use
by many people, so it is in my opinion worth to be kept in Debian.

Regarding the packaging, it really depends what your goals are. If you
want to become the maintainer of the package (and you indicated that by
putting your name into the maintainer field) you will eventually find a
sponsor. It might take some time, though, and you need to show some
persistence. But you can invest this time to improve the package's
quality as much as possible (and this again will increase the changes of
being sponsored sooner). As already it is more likely to find a sponsor
if the package is in good shape and sponsors also likes to see that you
care.

coldtobi