On Fri, 2017-03-03 at 06:24 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > control: tag -1 +moreinfo > control: owner -1 ! > > Dear Svante, > > On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 11:29:44AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > > I am looking for a sponsor for my ITA package "xpdf" > > I'd like to sponsor this. > > > xpdf (3.04.real-4) experimental; urgency=medium > > > > * New maintainer (Closes: #848631) > > * Build using the correct upstream tarball xpdf-3.04.tar.gz. > > For an adoption, we generally want to see further improvements to the > package so that we can be confident you have a genuine interest in > continuing to maintain it. If your adoption is merely changing the > Maintainer: field, we can't be confident that you are unlikely to > abandon the package. It is better for the package to be orphaned, so > anyone can make a QA upload, than have an inactive maintainer. > > Could you take a look through the packaging and see what else could be > improved, please? For example, there are some Lintian tags emitted.
I made this upload, renaming 3.04-4 to 3.04.real, mainly to obtain an updated upstream tarball, which is not the case for the current version in testing. The reason is to enable using debdiff xpdf_*.dsc for the really fixed package, 3.04.real-5. If needed I can upload that modified package instead. That one is among other things closing 11 important and normal bugs. (Probably even more bugs, I have not yet looked into the minor ans wishlist bugs. Thanks!