Hi Dmitry, I am not a DD and thus cannot sponsor your package, but here are a few remarks.
On 2016-06-11 11:17 -0400, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gdbm" Thanks for taking care of it! > Changes since last upload: Your debian/changelog file is actually missing the entry of the last upload (1.8.3-14), please incorporate it. That version already included a few of your changes, plus there is a patch for bug #774394 which your package seems to be missing. > * New maintainer (Closes: #826639) Please send a message to that bug that you would like to adopt the package, and retitle the bug accordingly. > * New upstream release Closes: #682239 Probably there are a few other bugs which are fixed by the new upstream release, e.g. #340479 - since version 1.9, gdbm has large file support. Please take a look at them, there are not too many. > * Update debian/watch > - use HTTP over FTP protocol. FTP have some issues with Tor. > - check GPG signature > * New binary package libgdbm4 over libgdbm3 due upstream changing ABI. This means that the upload should go to experimental first, and then you have to start a transition, see https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions. > * Bump debhelper compat level from 7 to 9 Already done in 1.8.3-14. > * Migrate debian/rules to `dh' sequencer The old package (besides not using debhelper for most things) had a few idiosyncrasies, such as the one mentioned in #589761. Hopefully none of those are needed anymore, but you should at least look at them. Also, you get a fix for bug #436944 for free. :-) > * Bump standards version to 3.9.8 Already done in 1.8.3-14. > * Remove mainainer scripts that called 'ldconfig', which is called by > dpkg trigger. Ditto. > * Replace direct pre-dependency on multiarch-support with > ${misc:Pre-Depends} Ditto. I guess it would be useful to ship the NEWS and NOTE-WARNING files in the libgdbm4 package. The latter is probably quite important on 32-bit architectures. Thanks for your contribution, and good luck in finding a sponsor. Cheers, Sven
