Bug#778728: RFS: task/2.4.1-1 [ITA] -- feature-rich console based todo list manager

[Tobias Frost <tobi@coldtobi.de>]

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On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 02:44:49AM +0100, Sebastien Badia wrote:
> Package: sponsorship-requests
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear mentors,
> 
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "task"
> 
> * Package name    : task
>   Version         : 2.4.1-1
>   Upstream Author : Paul Beckingham <paul@beckingham.net>
>                     Federico Hernandez <ultrafredde@gmail.com>
> * URL             : http://taskwarrior.org
> * License         : MIT
>   Section         : utils
> 
> It builds those binary packages:
> 
> task  - feature-rich console based todo list manager - transitional packa
> taskwarrior - feature-rich console based todo list manager
> 
> To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL:
> 
> http://mentors.debian.net/package/task
> 
> Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command:
> 
> dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/task/task_2.4.1-1.dsc
> 
> More information about hello can be obtained from http://taskwarrior.org.
> 
> Changes since the last upload:
> 
>  [ Gordon Ball ]
>  * Refresh patchs according new upstream release
>    * tests-fail.diff (fixed upstream, TW-1296)
>    * tests-for-released-version.diff (fixed upstream)
>    * tests-count-eom.diff (fixed upstream, TW-1295)
>    * fix-task-sync-man-url.diff (fixed upstream)
>  * Enable GnuTLS support (closes: #741625, LP: #1344560)
>  * tasksh is now a separate project and no longer included in this package
> 
>  [ Sebastien Badia ]
>  * New upstream release: 2.4.1 (LP: #1286939)
>  * New maintainer (co-maint. with Gordon) (closes: #762130)
>  * Convert debian/copyright to dep5 format
>  * Update standard-version (no changes)
>  * Get package lintian clean
>    * fix quilt-patch-missing-description
>    * fix manpage-has-errors-from-man
>    * fix hyphen-used-as-minus-sign
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Seb
> 
> -- 
> Sebastien Badia

Hi Sebastien,

Thanks for adopting the package. I will sponsor your upload.
(However, I cannot do it now, but I will do a througouh review tonight or tomorrow)

Some first remarks:
-> I recommend to avoid uploading a new upstream version to sid during the freeze. Use experimental.
-> please integrate get-orig-source.sh into d/rules if it is still required (is
   the new source now DFSG compliant? If so, document that in the changelog!)
-> please update d/rules to short debhelper format
-> please upgrade to debhelper compat level 9
-> please cleanup d/patches for patches applied upstream
   and check if not-forwarded patches should be forwarded 
-> you can drop the B-D version constraint on dpkg-dev -- even oldstable fulfilles it
-> can you please check if the override for conflicts-with-version is valid? (I did not check the details, 
so this could be wrong;  it just smells like you want to have Replaces: and Breaks: here, see Policy 7.6.1)
If you do a change here, be sure to properly test this. 

-- 
tobi