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Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: wishlist
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gdbm"
* Package name : gdbm
Version : 1.12-1
Upstream Author : bug-gdbm@gnu.org
* Url : http://directory.fsf.org/project/gdbm/
* Licenses : GPL-3+, GFDL-1.3+
Section : libs
It builds those binary packages:
libgdbm4 -- GNU dbm database routines (runtime version)
libgdbm-dev -- GNU dbm database routines (development files)
gdbmtool -- GNU dbm database routines (command line tools)
To access futher information about this package, visit the following URL:
http://mentors.debian.net/package/gdbm
Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command:
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gdbm/gdbm_1.12-1.dsc
Alternatively, you can access package debian/ directory via git from URL:
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/kaction-guest/gdbm.git
More information about gdbm can be obtained from http://directory.fsf.org/project/gdbm/
Changes since last upload:
* New maintainer (Closes: #826639)
* New upstream release
* Update debian/watch
- use HTTP over FTP protocol. FTP have some issues with Tor.
- check GPG signature
* New binary package libgdbm4 over libgdbm3 due upstream changing ABI.
* Bump debhelper compat level from 7 to 9
* Migrate debian/rules to `dh' sequencer
* Bump standards version to 3.9.8
* Remove obsolete README.source -- package no longer uses dpatch,
it now uses quilt
* Refresh patches and format them according dep3
- 01_texinfo-usr-local.patch: upstream moved texinfo manual under doc/
* Drop no longer needed patches
- 02_zero-headers.patch: code seems to be correct as-is,
no bug reference is present in patch
- 03-Makefile.in.patch: upstream now uses Automake
- 04_fix-gdbm-compat-linking.patch: compatibility with ancient (pre-2.0)
libtool is not needed anymore.
- 05_handle-short-read.patch: implemented upstream
- 06_manpage-cleanup.patch: hyphen issues fixed upstream
- 07-link-flags.patch: upstream now uses Automake
- 08-651521-libtool-mode-install.patch: upstream now uses Automake
- 08-709905-gdbm.texinfo.patch: fixed upstream
* Remove mainainer scripts that called 'ldconfig', which is called by
dpkg trigger.
* Reformat debian/copyright according dep5
* New binary package 'gdbtool' for command line utilities, provided by
upstream.
* Enable hardening
* Fix spelling in manual pages
* Replace direct pre-dependency on multiarch-support with ${misc:Pre-Depends}
* Regenerate 'symbols' file
* Add Vcs-* fields in debian/control
Regards,
Dmitry Bogatov
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