RFS: sfarklib/0.20131219gitee08d0c-1 [ITP]

[Ross Gammon]

On 11/09/2014 10:04 PM, Ruben Undheim wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there anyone who would like to sponsor this package?
> 

Hi Ruben,

This looks like a good little package (and its partner), and I would be
happy to be a co-uploader within the Debian Multimedia Team. I am nearly
a DM, but I cannot sponsor the package.

Unfortunately I fell at the first hurdle when taking a look at it. It
seems you have made the package directly from the upstream git
repository. This is okay, but I was not able to easily test build the
package without an original tarball.

Maybe it would be a good idea to build and upload to debian.mentors even
if the eventual sponsor comes form within the debian-multimedia team?
That makes it easy to to check for lintian errors without the reviewer
having to build it themselves. It also means there is an *orig.tar for
the reviewer :-) without having to create one.

Even though the package is from a git snapshot, you should still provide
a d/watch file, so that all the automated tools can compare the current
version with upstream releases (they have made some).

When I tried to build with gbp and the --pristine-tar option, the build
failed because the upstream tag is different to the entry in d/changelog.

It is a good idea to provide a gbp.conf file. The Debian Multimedia
packaging wiki
(https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/DevelopPackaging) recommends
at least the default option of pristine-tar being True.

Regards,

Ross

> 
> Thanks a lot in advance.
> 
> Regards,
> Ruben
> 
> 
> On Sun, 9 Nov 2014 21:52:44 +0100 Ruben Undheim <ruben.undheim at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Package: sponsorship-requests
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>> Dear mentors,
>>
>> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "sfarklib"
>>
>>  * Package name    : sfarklib
>>    Version         : 0.20131219gitee08d0c-1
>>    Upstream Author : Andy Inman
>>  * URL             :  https://github.com/raboof/sfArkLib
>>  * License         : GPL-3+
>>    Section         : libs
>>
>> It builds those binary packages:
>>    libsfark0
>>    libsfark-dev
>>    libsfark0-dbg
>>
>> To access further information about this package, please visit the
>> following URL:
>>
>>   http://bugs.debian.org/768169
>>
>>
>> The package can be downloaded with:
>>
>>       git clone git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-multimedia/sfarklib.git
>>
>>
>> Changes since the last upload:
>>
>>    Initial release (Closes: #768169)
>>
>> Regards,
>>  Ruben Undheim
>>
>>
> 
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