On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 06:24:41PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a sponsor for the package translate-docformat which is > orphaned. > > Description: any-to-any document translation system > > This is a command-line front end to many document format translation > programs to facilitate the translation of documents from > one format to another. > > Currently it supports major formats like the docbook, linuxdoc, debiandoc, > and TeX, translating to HTML and ps and text. > > If you are interested you can take a look at: > http://studwww.ugent.be/~lukclaes/debian/ > > Kind regards, > > Luk Claes > > PS: I have changed the bug title to ITA. > PS2: lintian has no complaints.
Hi, I've had a look at this. It's generally okay and I will be happy to
sponsor it for you.
There are just two points I'd like to clear up first:
1: Why is it a Debian native package? I know that it already *was* a
Debian native package before it was orphaned, but should it still be?
I personally don't see any reason not to split it to diff.gz and
orig.tar.gz (except *possibly* that it's such a small package anyway,
but that's not a good enough reason to keep it Debian native IMO). If
you can come up with a decent rationale for this, then it really
doesn't matter, but I'd like to hear the rationale. I know it has
fairly debian specific uses (debiandoc-sgml) but should it really be
a Debian-only package?
2:
N: Processing source package translate-docformat (version 0.5) ...
W: translate-docformat source: out-of-date-standards-version 3.5.6
N:
N: The source package refers to a 'Standards-Version' that is starting to
N: get out of date, compared to current Policy. You can safely ignore
N: this warning, but please consider updating the package to current
N: Policy.
We're up to version 3.5.10 of policy now as I recall. You should think
about going through and making sure the whole package adheres to latest
policy and bump the standards version.
This isn't a bar to me uploading it, but it's something you should be aware
of.
Basically provide me either a decent rationale for having it in Debian
native format, or redo it with orig.tar.gz and diff.gz and I'll sponsor it
for you.
Cheers,
Stephen
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