RFS: EngLab

[Harry Serenis]

Hi everyone,


I am a developer of a fairly new project called EngLab. It is intended  
to be a mathematical platform / programming language such as Matlab  
and Octave but *not* a Matlab clone. It has a C like syntax, native  
support for many data types, allows variable declarations and has a  
interface for external functions written in C++. (If you would like  
more info please visit our site at http://englab.org.)

The reason i am writing this e-mail is not to advertise our project,  
but to give a bump to the upload of the Debian packages to the  
unstable branch. As a development team we have decided that at our  
current status (pre-beta) we should try to integrate as much possible  
with existing systems and distributions, in order to get user  
feedback. We consider Debian an important achievement towards this  
goal since:

* Debian has a lot of users that will help us bug tracking
* It supports a lot of architectures. (*Very* important since our  
datatypes are architecture dependent)
* We are going to follow the stable/testing release scheme as Debian does.

Therefore we have created Debian packages in hope to enter the  
official Debian repository. In the meanwhile we have created our own  
un-official repository to help our Debian users install our software.

But our RFS on the Debian mentors mailing list has gone by unnoticed  
for months, since our software is quite specialized. Tracking down a  
thread named: "No sponsor for weeks, now what?" on that list we found  
out that it is advised to post on a team mailing list when you are  
seeking sponsor for a specialized program. I am posting on this  
mailing list hoping to find a sponsor for our packages. Currently I  
have uploaded only one package to Debian mentors repository libenglab,  
which is a required library for our entire suite.

The original RFS:

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libenglab0.2".

* Package name    : libenglab0.2
   Version         : 0.2.4-1
   Upstream Author : BugFest Team
* URL             : http://englab.org
* License         : GPLv2
   Section         : libs

It builds these binary packages:
englab-utils - mathematical platform with a C like syntax (run-time utilities)
libenglab0.2 - mathematical platform with a C like syntax (run-time library)
libenglab0.2-dev - mathematical platform with a C like syntax  
(development files)

The package appears to be lintian clean.

The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libenglab0.2
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable  
main contrib
non-free
- dget  
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libenglab0.2/libenglab0.2_0.2.4-1.dsc

I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.

Kind regards
  Harry Serenis