Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package "vrr". * Package name : vrr Version : 0.9.4-1 Upstream Author : VRR team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/projekty/vrr/ License : GPL-2+ Section : graphics Language/Libs : C, Scheme, GTK+ Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-science/vrr/ Vcs-Browser: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-science/vrr It builds these binary packages: vrr - vector image editor with TeX support vrr-doc - vector image editor with TeX support, documentation VRR is a vector image editor designed especially (but not only) for making illustrations of mathematical articles. Its main features are many types of geometric objects and keeping of their dependencies, cooperation with TeX, scripting in Scheme, real-size dimensions, support for a wide range of file formats (including PS, EPS, PDF, and SVG). Why should this package be in Debian: VRR is somewhat similar to IPE, another drawing package already in Debian. Probably they both have advantages and disadvantages; one compelling feature of vrr that IPE does not have (as far as I know) is certain simple "dynamic geometry" features. You can compute the intersection of two b-splines (or line segments), move the control points of b-splines, and the intersection point moves. Compared to something like kig, I think it has less powerful construction abilities, but has the important advantage that you can enter labels in TeX (in particular math). For mathematical diagrams destined for publication, this is really crucial. The package is lintian -i -I clean, and builds in an sid (today) pbuilder. The upload would fix these bugs: 448633 The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/v/vrr - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/v/vrr/vrr_0.9.4-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me, or for any comments on the packaging. You can see in debian/TODO, there are some packaging issues I am aware of. The main ones are * currently ld flag --as-needed is used to work around the excessive libraries given by pkg-config. Or maybe bad use of pkg-config upstream. * there is a fair sized doc package. I want to eventually make this a recommends, but since it contains the online help, this requires a little gtk+ hacking to pop up a dialog when the doc package is not present. Kind regards David Bremner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]