RFS: imagination (adopting orphaned package)

Andrew SB a.starr.b at gmail.com
Tue Sep 1 01:20:18 UTC 2009


On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Andrew SB<a.starr.b at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear mentors,
>
> I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.5-3 of the package
> "imagination". I am adopting an orphaned package.

In my shortest wait ever on debian-mentors, this package was sponsored
off list. Thanks!

>
> It builds these binary packages:
> imagination - DVD slide show maker
>
> The package appears to be lintian clean and builds in a clean sid pbuilder.
>
> The upload would fix these bugs: 543846
>
> The changes are mostly trivial:
>
> imagination (1.5-3) unstable; urgency=low
>
>  * New maintainer. (Closes: #543846)
>  * debian/control:
>   - Add Vcs-* fields.
>   - Extend description.
>   - Rename Suggests on *-unstripped-* packages to the new
>     *-extra-* packages.
>  * Add debian/watch file.
>  * debian/copyright: Replace deprecated symbol (C) with ©.
>  * Move imagination.{xpm,1} to debian/ and install them from
>    debian/rules. Delete debian/manpages/, debian/pixmaps/, and
>    imagination.{manpages,install}.
>
> Please note that the new watch file doesn't currently work, but that
> is because of a bug in the sourceforge redirector. See:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543711
>
> The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
> - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/i/imagination
> - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable
> main contrib non-free
> - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/i/imagination/imagination_1.5-3.dsc
>
> I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.
>
> Kind regards
>  Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
>
> P.S. I am not subscribed to pkg-multimedia-maintainers, please CC me
> in replies. This package is not currently in pkg-multimedia, but I
> might be interested in maintaining it there if the team is interested
> in the package.
>

I feel comfortable maintaining this myself, but if anyone in
pkg-multimedia has a interest in this I'd still be open to maintaining
it there. Please drop debian-mentors in your reply...

Thanks all,

Andrew Starr-Bochicchio



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