Bug#844184: RFS: muse-el/3.20+dfsg-1 [ITA]

[Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>]

Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal

Dear mentors,

I am looking for review and a sponsor for my package "src:muse-el".
I've CC'd Sean Whitton who is willing to help me with elpa, LISP, and
any emacs-on-Debian integration issues.
Here are a few things I'm wondering about:

Are the generated packages in the correct sections for an elpafied
package?
Is removing hrefs to favicon.ico (Bug: #775885) sufficient?
    Distributing a favicon.ico seems unnecessary and honestly, I'm
    against it. In Canada, because the author retains all distribution
    rights in the absence of a license or declared copyright, even
    something as trivial as a favicon.ico can be unredistributable.  I
    couldn't find the license on Michael Olson's website
    <mwolson.org>, so I decided it was best not to copy it.

Do my patches look ok?
Should elpafied packages continue to be arch-independent?
Is debian/changelog too verbose and could it be condensed?

Package name    : muse-el
Version         : 3.20+dfsg-1
Section         : editors

It builds those binary packages:

  elpa-muse  - Author and publish projects using Wiki-like markup
  muse-el    - transitional dummy package for elpa-muse.

To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL:

  https://mentors.debian.net/package/muse-el

Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command:

  dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/muse-el/muse-el_3.20+dfsg-1.dsc

More information about hello can be obtained from https://www.example.com.

Changes since the last upload:

muse-el (3.20+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New Maintainer.
  * debian/control:
    - Bump required debhelper to >=9.
    - Update emacs dependency.
    - Add emacs-goodies-el dependency, which provides htmlize.el.
  * Switch to debcompat 9; Switch to 3.0 (quilt) non-native packaging.
  * Add patch to fix privacy breaches; removes hrefs. (Closes: #775885)
  * Elpafy! (depends on dh-elpa).
  * Add patch to disable non-DFSG compliant texi stuff.
  * Install docs and examples the new dh_way.
  * debian/rules:
    - add override to build examples and autoloads.
    - add override to install upstream changelog series.
  * debian/copyright:
    - Fix misattributed source (found by comparing timestamps in comments
      between gna.org tarballs and git sources).
    - Update format.
    - Add debian/* section.
  * Include images used by the QuickStart.muse example. (Closes: #720121)
  * Add patch to use Debian's "see" command instead of "open".  Thank
    you Kevin Ryde, I didn't know about the existence of "see" before
    reading this bug report. (Closes: #720126)
  * Patch README to explain how installed files relate to src:muse-el.

 -- Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>  Tue, 18 Oct 2016 20:58:45 -0400


Regards,
Nicholas D Steeves