Bug#976662: RFS: budgie-desktop-view/1.0.2-1 [ITP] -- Desktop Icons for the Budgie-Desktop

[David Mohammed <davidmohammed@gmail.com>]

Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: wishlist

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "budgie-desktop-view":

 * Package name    : budgie-desktop-view
   Version         : 1.0.2-1
   Upstream Author : Josh Strobl <joshua@streambits.io>
 * URL             : https://github.com/getsolus/budgie-desktop-view
 * License         : Apache-2.0
 * Vcs             :
https://github.com/UbuntuBudgie/budgie-desktop-view/tree/debian
   Section         : misc

It builds those binary packages:

  budgie-desktop-view - Desktop Icons for the Budgie-Desktop

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

  https://mentors.debian.net/package/budgie-desktop-view/

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

  dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/b/budgie-desktop-view/budgie-desktop-view_1.0.2-1.dsc

Notes:
  I am the Debian Maintainer of budgie-desktop & budgie-extras (plus
several other packages).

Recently the Solus Project who are the upstream of budgie-desktop
released v10.5.1 of budgie-desktop.  This included support for a new
project of theirs called budgie-desktop-view which provides desktop
icon support for the budgie-desktop.  Upstream has marked this as
"stable"

I have had to ship budgie-desktop to Debian without desktop-icon
support - this is the reason for this RFS - to include in the Debian
archive the upstream support for desktop-icons.

Implementation will be two fold:
1. upload of this package if acceptable to Debian and
2. once uploaded, make a change to budgie-desktop to add a
recommendation to this package + a gsettings-override to enable the
budgie-desktop-view.   I will handle this latter implementation myself
via my current maintainer rights.

I have spot checked various source files to ensure they contain the
Apache-2 license header.
I have sbuild this package against unstable and all information &
warning lintian issues have been resolved.

In addition to sponsoring this project - if appropriate I would like
to continue maintainership of this package
(assuming that it is acceptable to Debian) in a similar manner as my
current maintainership packages (dak fossfreedom@ubuntu.com)

Changes for the initial release:

 budgie-desktop-view (1.0.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Initial Release (Closes:#976649)

Regards,
--
  David Mohammed