Bug#1005782: RFS: budgie-control-center/0.4-1 [ITP] -- utilities to configure 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-control-center":

 * Package name    : budgie-control-center
   Version         : 0.4-1
   Upstream Author : Budgie Desktop Developers <admin@buddiesofbudgie.org>
 * URL             : https://github.com/buddiesofbudgie/budgie-control-center
 * License         : GPL-3+, GPL-2+ and LGPL-2.1+ and LGPL-2+ and Expat
 * Vcs             : https://github.com/ubuntubudgie/budgie-control-center
   Section         : misc

It builds those binary packages:

  budgie-control-center - utilities to configure the Budgie desktop
  budgie-control-center-dev - Development package for Budgie Settings
  budgie-control-center-data - configuration applets for Budgie - data files

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

  https://mentors.debian.net/package/budgie-control-center/

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

  dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/b/budgie-control-center/budgie-control-center_0.4-1.dsc

Background:
I am the DM for the budgie desktop and related packages  in Debian and
part of the upstream development team.

As part of the next version of budgie-desktop we have replaced our
dependency of gnome-control-center with our own budgie-control-center.

This package is focused on budgie whereas the current
gnome-control-center is focussed on gnome-shell.

This package is a fork of gnome-control-center at v41.  The Debian
package itself is derived from Debian's gnome-control-center.

The copyright file & its authors has been derived from the current
gnome-control-center package with the addition of our own authorship
plus the changes described next.

This package was previously sponsored but was rejected by ftp-master
with the request to add
the GPL-3+ files to debian/copyright.  This has now been done.

I've also taken the opportunity to spot check some of the existing
GPL2+ authors and update the date ranges as appropriate.

In addition have taken the opportunity to resolve some of the information and
pedantic issues found in the current gnome-control-center package.

In terms  of testing we have ensured that budgie-control-center can
coexist with gnome-control-center i.e. this allows users to use both
gnome-shell and budgie-desktop on the same installed machine.

I have tested this package on the current debian testing image +
debian unstable repos.
By installing the two built packages,  budgie-desktop (which is a
necessary dependency) with budgie-control-center was installed.
Budgie Control Center was confirmed to be working as expected.

I would like to continue providing the best experience of
budgie-desktop for Debian and this package is part of this continued
commitment.  Please can you consider sponsoring this package -
obviously in the future I would like to ensure that I can continue
providing timely uploads through supplementing my current DM package
rights with this new package.

Changes for the initial release:

 budgie-control-center (0.4-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Initial Release (Closes: #1003845)


Regards,
-- 
  David Mohammed