Bug#876519: sponsorship-requests: RFS: tack/1.08-0.1 [RC, NMU] (original) (raw)

Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: important

I am looking for a sponsor for an NMU of the "tack" package, https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/tack.

This is a new upstream version fixing an FTBFS bug with current ncurses[1] and a segfault problem[2]. In addition to that, I have fixed the debian/watch file which was no longer working[3].

I have tried to keep the changes under debian/ minimal, but the upstream changes are quite large (34 files changed, 10268 insertions, 4831 deletions). Still, considering that this is a leaf package with low popcon and the maintainer has not replied to any of the bugs, packaging a new upstream release seemed appropriate to me.

A detailed log of what I broke is on the git repository at [4] (the Debian changelog has not been finalized there yet, will push if/when the package gets accepted into Debian).

Cheers, Sven

  1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=862472
  2. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=716377
  3. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=873288
  4. https://anonscm.debian.org/git/users/joachim-guest/tack.git/log/?h=nmu

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