Bug#725831: RFS: libkml/1.3.0~r864-1

[Bas Couwenberg]

Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libkml"

 Package name    : libkml
 Version         : 1.3.0~r864-1
 Upstream Author : Google Inc. <opensource at google.com>
 URL             : https://code.google.com/p/libkml/
 License         : BSD-3-Clause
 Section         : science

It builds those binary packages:

 libkml-dev - Library to manipulate KML 2.2 OGC standard files - development fi
 libkml-java - Library to manipulate KML 2.2 OGC standard files - Java package
 libkml0    - Library to manipulate KML 2.2 OGC standard files
 python-kml - Library to manipulate KML 2.2 OGC standard files - Python extensi

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

http://mentors.debian.net/package/libkml


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

  dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/libk/libkml/libkml_1.3.0~r864-1.dsc

More information about libkml can be obtained from https://code.google.com/p/libkml/.

Changes since the last upload:

  * Merge upstream commit r864:
    Allow colors to have leading whitespace, with or without '#'.
  * Add myself to Uploaders.
  * Update swig.diff to also disable the SWIG version check in configure.ac.
    Thanks Ilya Barygin for the patch.
  * Update ld-as-needed.diff to fix FTBFS with --as-needed.
    Thanks Ilya Barygin for the patch.
    (closes: #692055)
  * Add hurd.diff to fix FTBFS on hurd-i386.
    Thanks Pino Toscano for the patch.
    (closes: #671894)
  * Refresh patches.
  * Use canonical URLs for Vcs-* fields.
  * Don't start short description with an article.
  * Drop XB-Python-Version from control file.
  * Add a watch file.
  * Add patch to fix executable-not-elf-or-script for java run.sh example.
  * Add lintian override for no fortify functions false positive.
  * Drop needless dependency on default-jre for libkml-java.
  * Move .so symlinks from java packages to libkml-dev.
  * Update copyright file using copyright-format 1.0.
  * Add lintian override for source-contains-prebuilt-windows-binary.
  * Use minimal dh rules, handle Multi-Arch paths.
  * Use dh-autoreconf for retooling.
  * Add patch to set subdir-objects automake option for forward compatibility.
  * Add patch to fix linking libtool libraries using a non-POSIX archiver.
  * Add patch to not build examples, msvc and xcode subprojects.
  * Add lintian override for incompatible-java-bytecode-format.
  * Add patch headers for all patches.
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.4, changes: Vcs-* fields, copyright,
    minimal dh rules.
  * Build depend on libcurl4-gnutls-dev instead of libcurl4-openssl-dev.


Regards,
 Sebastiaan Couwenberg