Hi Sebastian,

thanks for working on this package. I think it is ok to switch to a fork
as the original software is not developed any more.

Some notes/questions on your package:

1) Remove changelog.new.
2) Use VCS for maintaining the package and uncomment corresponding lines
in control-file.
3) Current Standards-version is 3.9.4
4) Convert copyright-file to a DEP-5 format, who is copyright-holder
after 2008?
5) What is debian/rules.small? If it works, why do you keep an old
version? If you plan to use the current debian/rules, it should be
cleaned also, using override_dh-commands.
6) Lintian's complaining on hardening should be investigated, not just
simply overridden.
7) tilda.dirs, seems, useless.
8) Clean watch-file. It should be 3-lines long.
9) Your package fails to build:

================
cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub
cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.guess config.guess
dh_autoreconf
Can't exec "autopoint": No such file or directory at
/usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 345.
autoreconf: failed to run autopoint: No such file or directory
autoreconf: autopoint is needed because this package uses Gettext
dh_autoreconf: autoreconf -f -i returned exit code 1
make: *** [config.status] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
=================

10) Do you really need debian/source/options?

Cheers,

Anton

On 03/02/2013 02:23 PM, Lanoxx wrote:
> Package: sponsorship-requests
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear mentors,
> 
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "tilda"
> 
>  * Package name    : tilda
>    Version         : 1.1.4-1
>    Upstream Author : Sebastian Geiger <lan...@gmx.net>
>  * URL             : https://github.com/lanoxx/tilda
>  * License         : GPL-2
>    Section         : x11
> 
> It builds those binary packages:
> 
>   tilda - Gtk based drop down terminal for Linux and Unix
> 
> To access further information about this package, please visit the
> following URL:
> 
>   http://mentors.debian.net/package/tilda
> 
> 
> Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command:
> 
>   dget -x
> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/tilda/tilda_1.1.4-1.dsc
> 
> More information about tilda can be obtained from
> https://github.com/lanoxx/tilda.
> 
> I have already spawned a discussion about switching to a new upstream
> location and becoming new maintainer at this bug #695574 [1].
> 
> Please also see bug #583248 [2], which states that the current
> maintainer is MIA since 2010-05-26.
> 
> Note that I'm targeting unstable not experimental, because I believe
> that given the amount of bugs my package fixes makes this package more
> stable than the one which is currently in unstable.
> 
>  Changes since the last upload:
> 
>  tilda (1.1.4-1) unstable; urgency=low
> 
>   * New upstream release (Closes: #695574, #692904)
>   * Added a watch file (Closes: #501739)
>   * Use x-www-browser as default (Closes: #552505)
>   * Use word characters setting, thanks to Liu Yubao
>     <yubao....@gmail.com> (Closes: #506855)
>   * Remove deprecated dpatch and upgrade to packaging format "3.0 quilt"
>     and update to Standards-Version to 3.9.3 and debhelper to 9,
>     thanks to Jari Aalto <jari.aa...@cante.net> (Closes: #664358)
>   * New maintainer (Sebastian Geiger), thanks to Davide Truffa for his
>     previous work (Closes: #583248)
>   * Update tilda.desktop file to be compatible with freedesktop.org,
>     thanks to Jekyll Wu (Closes: #678129)
> 
>  -- Sebastian Geiger <lan...@gmx.net>  Sat, 23 Feb 2013 12:06:09 +0100
> 
>   Regards,
>    Sebastian Geiger
> 
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=695574
> [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=583248
> 
> 


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