Bug#823521: RFS: irstlm/6.00.05-1 -- IRST Language Modeling Toolkit

[Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com>]

On 05/05/16 17:16, Giulio Paci wrote:
> Package: sponsorship-requests
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-CC: rbalint@debian.org
>
> Dear Balint,
>
> I am looking for a sponsor for an updated version of my package "irstlm"
>
>   * Package name    : irstlm
>     Version         : 6.00.05-1
>     Upstream Author : Marcello Federico <federico@fbk.eu>
>   * URL             : https://github.com/irstlm-team/irstlm/
>   * License         : LGPL-2.1
>     Programming Lang: C++, Perl, Bash
>     Description     : IRST Language Modeling Toolkit
>     Section         : misc
>
> This package includes latest upstream releases and several package updates.
>
> You can found the sources for the package and additional information at:
>
>    https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/irstlm.git/
>
> A review of the package is more than welcome.
>
> Regards,
>     Giulio Paci

Hi Giulio,

You might be interested to move this package to co-maintenance under the
Debian Science Team [1] and integrate it to one of the tasks [2] in the
future (perhaps the linguistics task [3]?).

A few remarks:
d/control: the source package is Section: text. Section: libs or
Section: science is probably more appropriate.
d/control: Homepage should probably be http://hlt-mt.fbk.eu/technologies
/irstlm
d/copyright: Source should probably be the Github repository, not the
sourceforge page, which clearly says: "IRSTLM is no more supported on
SourceForge."

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience
[2] http://blends.debian.org/science/tasks/
[3] http://blends.debian.org/science/tasks/linguistics

Best regards,
Ghis