RFS: Mangler

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 09:54:14PM -0800, Vincent Cheng wrote:
> Dear Debian VoIP Team,
> 
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "mangler". As I've already
> contacted the debian-mentors mailing list and have yet to receive a reply, I
> thought that I might bring this RFS to the Debian VoIP team to see if
> anybody here is interested in uploading my package for me. Since I'm not
> suscribed to the Debian VoIP maintainers' mailing list, please CC any
> replies to me.

Technically if the package is maintained by a team, it should be adopted
by the team.

That said, if noone else in the team uses it, I would expect you to
stick around to support it.

Anybody else uses it? Or Ventrilo?

> 
> * Package name    : mangler
>   Version         : 1.2.1
>   Upstream Author : Eric Connell, Daniel Sloof

What about 'Copyright 2010 Roman Tetelman'? The copyrights file needs
some work, I believe. There's also '"humbaba" <anonymous>' mentioned in
debian/copyright . Was this raised in the mentors list?

> * URL             : http://www.mangler.org/
> * License         : GPL-2, GPL-3, LGPL-2.1
>   Programming Lang: C, C++
>   Description     : A Ventrilo compatible client for Linux
> Mangler is an open source VoIP client capable of connecting to Ventrilo 3.x
> servers. It is capable of performing almost all standard user functionality
> found in a Windows Ventrilo client. Ventrilo is a proprietary VoIP
> communication software, letting users communicate through voice or text.
> 
> It builds these binary packages:
> mangler    - A Ventrilo compatible client for Linux
> 
> The package appears to be lintian clean.
> 
> The upload would fix these bugs: 609291
> 
> My motivation for maintaining this package is: I often communicate with
> others who use Ventrilo, and Mangler lets me do just that. As far as I know,
> there is no other package in Debian that can communicate with Ventrilo
> servers or its protocol, so I hope that this package can be useful for
> fellow Debian users.
> 
> The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
> - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/mangler
> - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main
> contrib non-free
> - dget
> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/mangler/mangler_1.2.1-1.dsc
> 
> I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.

Two other issues I had with the package:

1. Do you really need libdmalloc-dev as a build dependency? It is not
mentioned in http://www.mangler.org/building/ .

2. Is libmangler3 an independent library or an internal one? If it is an
independent library, it should be packaged in its own package (or
rather: two: one for the dev package).

I noticed it already has SONAME 3. Why is that?

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