Re: About sponsorship

[Thomas Dettbarn]

Yes, the process is highly frustrating. 
Hang in there, buddy!

Thomas

> Francisco M Neto  hat am 08.09.2020 03:31 geschrieben:
> 
>  
> Greetings,
> 
>   I see a lot of RFS email that just sits there in the mailing list,
> without ever getting a response... is that normal? Do responses about requests
> for sponsorship usually not get sent to debian-mentors? 
> 
>   Is there something I should be doing to get someone to sponsor my
> package?
> 
> 
> -- 
> []'s,
> 
> Francisco M Neto 
> www.fmneto.com
> 
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Request for sponsor for JAG

[Carlos Donizete Froes]

Hello,

I am looking for a sponsor for the JAG package (0.3.8-1)[1], where all 
themes[2] from the
previous version have been removed, except the default theme for reasons that 
are
"freeware", but with additional Fasticon restrictions.

The Fasticon website[3], now offline, read:

---
License Agreement:
If you want to use our icons in a commercial project, you need order a 
commercial license.
To use our icons of Freeware section in your software, web site or other 
projects, you
need to maintain an active link to http://www.fasticon.com , with the link 
text: "Icons
by: FastIcon.com". If you can’t or don’t want to place link back, please 
purchase a
commercial license.
Please, order 1(one) commercial license for each Icon set you want to use.
Each license costs $24 USD.
---

The Fasticon themes are "freeware" with additional restrictions.

[1] https://mentors.debian.net/package/jag

[2] 
https://web.archive.org/web/20160317024926/http://jag.xlabsoft.com/themes.php

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20110309054026/fasticon.com/freeware

I will be very grateful to anyone who analyzes my package.

Thanks!

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Bug#969782: RFS: jag/0.3.8-1 -- arcade and puzzle 2D game

[Carlos Donizete Froes]

Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "jag":

 * Package name: jag
   Version : 0.3.8-1
   Upstream Author : XlabSoft & Industrial Infosystems
 * URL : https://gitlab.com/coringao/jag/wikis
 * License : GPL-3+
 * Vcs : https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/jag
   Section : games

It builds those binary packages:

  jag - arcade and puzzle 2D game

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

  https://mentors.debian.net/package/jag/

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

  dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/j/jag/jag_0.3.8-1.dsc

Changes since the last upload:

 jag (0.3.8-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * New upstream release:
 - All themes have been removed, except the default theme for reasons that
   are "freeware", but with additional Fasticon restrictions.
   * debian/control:
 + Switch to debhelper-compat = 13.
 - Package and Depends "jag-data" removed.
   * debian/jag-data.install removed.
   * Renamed "jag.install" to "install".
   * debian/install: Added the "data" directory.
   * Added debian/docs.
   * debian/rules:
 - Removed DEB_LDFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND. Fixed upstream.
   * Added autopkgtest.

Regards,
--
  Carlos Donizete Froes [a.k.a coringao]

Re: About sponsorship

[Francisco M Neto]

Hey there!

Thanks for your replies.

On Tue, 2020-09-08 at 01:41 +, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 1:32 AM Francisco M Neto wrote:
> 
> > Is there something I should be doing to get someone to sponsor my package?
> 
> Keep maintaining your packages and keep your RFSen up to date.
> 
> There are some other tips for this in the FAQ:
> 
> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq#Sponsored_Packages

Thank you so much for all the info. I'll keep working on them, and keep
them updated on salsa and mentors.d.o. 

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Francisco M Neto 
www.fmneto.com

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Re: About sponsorship

[Paul Wise]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 1:32 AM Francisco M Neto wrote:

> I see a lot of RFS email that just sits there in the mailing list,
> without ever getting a response... is that normal?

It has always been the case that there are more people seeking
sponsors than available sponsors.

> Do responses about requests for sponsorship usually not get sent to 
> debian-mentors?

Responses go to the bugs but the bugs forward to the list.

> Is there something I should be doing to get someone to sponsor my package?

Keep maintaining your packages and keep your RFSen up to date.

There are some other tips for this in the FAQ:

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq#Sponsored_Packages

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

About sponsorship

[Francisco M Neto]

Greetings,

I see a lot of RFS email that just sits there in the mailing list,
without ever getting a response... is that normal? Do responses about requests
for sponsorship usually not get sent to debian-mentors? 

Is there something I should be doing to get someone to sponsor my
package?


-- 
[]'s,

Francisco M Neto 
www.fmneto.com

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Bug#969759: RFS: rumur/2020.09.06-1 [RC] -- model checker for the Murphi language

[Matthew Fernandez]

Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: important

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "rumur":

* Package name: rumur
   Version : 2020.09.06-1
   Upstream Author : Matthew Fernandez 
* URL : https://github.com/Smattr/rumur
* License : Unlicense
* Vcs : https://github.com/Smattr/rumur.git
   Section : devel

It builds those binary packages:

  rumur - model checker for the Murphi language

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

  https://mentors.debian.net/package/rumur/

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

  dget -x 
https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/r/rumur/rumur_2020.09.06-1.dsc

Changes since the last upload:

rumur (2020.09.06-1) unstable; urgency=medium

Re: RFS: golang-github-rakyll-magicmime/0.1.0-1 [ITP] -- Go bindings for libmagic to detect MIME types

[Jai Flack]

I would like to add this is a dependency for pistol
(https://github.com/doronbehar/pistol) a general purpose file 
previewer
written in Go which I would like to package after all the 
dependencies

are ready -- if it sounds interesting to any prospective sponsors.

--
Thanks,
Jai

Bug#969180: RFS: facerec/1.0 [ITP] -- A Face Authentication system for ubuntu

[Rushabh Vasani]

I also have created a PPA for this package.
And it can be installed with:


> *sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rushabh-v/facerec*



> *sudo apt install facerec*


 Please inform me if anyone is up to sponsor it.
 Thanks, Regards.

--
Rushabh

On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 10:45 PM Rushabh Vasani 
wrote:

> Package: sponsorship-requests
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Dear mentors,
>
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "facerec":
>
> * Package name: facerec
> * Version: 1.0
> * Upstream Author: Rushabh Vasani 
> * URL: https://github.com/rushabh-v/linux_face_unlock
> * License : GPL-3.0 License
> 
> * Vcs: https://github.com/rushabh-v/linux_face_unlock
> * Section: devel (Python)
>
> It builds those binary packages:
> Facerec - Linux face unlock
>
> Facerec - Face authentication system for Ubuntu Linux that works while
> logging in, running "sudo" commands, etc. It is having a user-friendly CLI
> and it is highly optimized and secure.
>
> To access further information about this package, please visit the
> following URL:
> https://github.com/rushabh-v/linux_face_unlock
>
> Alternatively, one can download and install the deb package with the
> following steps:
>
>1. *Install prerequisites:*
>
> sudo apt-get install python3-pip \
> python3-opencv \
> python3-setuptools \
> python-execnet \
> cmake \
> libatlas-base-dev \
> build-essential
>
>
>1. *Download the deb package:*
>
> wget https://rushabh-v.github.io/facerec_1.0_all.deb
>
>
>1. *Install facerec:*
>
> sudo dpkg -i facerec_1.0_all.deb
>
> Command Line Interface
> CommandDescription
> facerec new Add a new root face.
> facerec enable Enable facerec (Enable back after disabling)
> facerec disable Temporarily disable facerec, preserving the setup.
> facerec remove Completely remove facerec and with all the root faces.
> facerec --help help for Facerec-CLI
> changelog:
>   facerec (1.0); urgency=normal
> * Initial release.
>
> Best Regards,
> Rushabh Vasani
>


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Re: abydos

[Rebecca N. Palmer]

General information on packaging:

(Sorry, these may be out of date and/or not very clear - 
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianAcademy are working on better ones. 
Non-trust warning: wiki.debian.org is an anyone-can-edit site.)


https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide
https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging/Intro
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/
https://www.debian.org/devel/

Plugins and security:

Thank you for thinking about this question.

grep -rhi -e "Package:.*plugins" /var/lib/apt/lists/*_Packages finds 
many existing plugin collection packages, but they may have non-security 
reasons for being separate (e.g. package/dependencies size).


An alternative way to reduce the exploitability of bugs in obscure 
formats would be to make the library's autodetect functionality default 
to only considering common formats (and/or to rejecting files with 
misleading filename extensions).  Users who do want to use such a format 
would then have to request it at run time; this has the advantage 
(compared to installing a plugin package) of being one-off rather than 
default-permanent, but the disadvantage that it might be too easy to 
click yes without thinking.