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Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal [important for RC bugs, wishlist for new packages]

Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for updates to the package "blt". This
version does not
solve all of the problems in the previous blt packaging, but it does address
MANY of the problems.  I'm leaving this better than I found it, I mean
to say. blt
is, for the most part, a finished and closed library, upstream has been silent
for almost a decade. That's why the patches applied seem more like fundamental

library repairs than just little Debian fixups.


 * Package name    : blt
   Version         : 2.4z-6
   Upstream Author : George Howlett <[email protected]?
 * URL             : http://blt.sourceforge.net
 * License         : GPL
   Section         : devel

It builds those binary packages:

blt   - graphics extension library for Tcl/Tk - run-time package
blt-demo   - graphics extension library for Tcl/Tk - demos and examples
blt-dev    - graphics extension library for Tcl/Tk - development files

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

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


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

    dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/b/blt/blt_2.4z-6.dsc

  More information about hello can be obtained from http://www.example.com.

  Changes since the last upload:

Georges Khaznadar made an enormous contribution of cleaning up the packaging
and bringing some Debian details up to date. I never would have found the
time to wade through all of those details.

This version is VERY MUCH better than blt as currently distributed. It
integrates the patches that prevent segmentation faults that were developed in
the Fedora distribution a few years ago. All of the changes to the blt
source code that
were made by the previous maintainers are now segregated in a patch file
so we can see what they were doing.  There are now new patch files
that are more-or-less single-purposed adjustments. Many linitian objections
are solved. Some remain, but I can't see how to silence them without breaking
the software itself.


 blt (2.4z-6) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Paul E. Johnson (Debian Packaging) ]
  * New Maintainer (Closes: #664092)
  * Fix zooming (Closes: #524149)
  * Fix crash in wish (Closes: #636629)
  * Version 2.4z-6 introduces quilt-3.0 patches.
  * Changes in control and rules file to silence lintian warnings.
  * 02-debian-all.diff includes all of the changes that were applied
    to the source code by previous packager. Almost all of the changes
    are corrections in spelling in the blt documentation and examples.
  * Apply 3 changes based on revisions developed by the fedora linux team.
    + 03-fedora-patch-2.diff
    + 04-fedora-tk8.5.6.patch.diff
    + 05-tk8.5-zoomstack.diff
   * Those patches are required to solve segmentation faults that are observed
    when blt is used with tcltk 8.5. We have a substantial amount of
    experience using this patched version of blt in the Swarm
    Simulation System (www.swarm.org) and have observed no ill-effects.
   * new patches for man page cleanups to silence lintian warningss.
   * patch configure according to Debian hardening policy.

  [ Georges Khaznadar ]
  * changed the source format to 3.0 (quilt)
  * modified every diff file in debian/patches to comply with the
    build tools
  * checked that the package is built successfully
  * modified Standards-Version -> 3.9.4, comptaibility level -> 9
  * added a build-depedency on quilt and ${misc:Depends} clauses
  * changed the build-depedency on debhelper (now: >= 9)
  * set the urgency flag to low (normal is not allowed)
  * removed the leading article in blt-dev's and blt-demo's description lines




 Regards,
   Paul E. Johnson



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Professor, Political Science      Assoc. Director
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504      Center for Research Methods
University of Kansas                 University of Kansas
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