Hi Samuel you need to send this to sub...@bugs.debian.org and not to your existing ITP bug, since opening an RFS bug actually is filling out a new bug against the sponsoring-requests pseudo-package in Debian.
Please take care of a proper subject. It's not a NMU what you are trying to get a sponsorship for, but an ITP. The subject of your email therefore should be: RFS: exposong/0.8-1 [ITP| -- A worship presentation software Additionally I suggest you list the contents of your changelog, even it contains only a single trivial. It could be something like this: --- SNIP --- Initial changelog entry (since this is a new package): * Initial release (Closes: #713903) --- SNAP --- Hope that was of help Daniel Am Dienstag, den 02.07.2013, 22:16 +0200 schrieb Samuel Mehrbrodt: > Hi Daniel, > > I followed the steps and sent the mail: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=713903 > > Did I do something wrong that it doesn't appear here on the mentors list? > > Samuel > Am 01.07.2013 13:54, schrieb Daniel Beyer: > > Hi Samuel, > > > > yes, I think you now can give that a try. There are some tips on how to > > get a sponsor at: > > https://mentors.debian.net/sponsors > > > > If you choose to go the RFS way, you can get a template for filling out > > this kind of bug at: > > https://mentors.debian.net/sponsors/rfs-howto/exposong > > > > Please carefully go through this template and update its content > > accordingly. Some of the placeholders in there are pretty obvious, but > > others can easily been overlooked. > > > > > > Thanks for your work on Debian and good luck in finding a sponsor > > Daniel > > > > > > Am Montag, den 01.07.2013, 13:32 +0200 schrieb Samuel Mehrbrodt: > >> Hi Daniel, > >> > >> thanks for your help, I fixed the remaining warnings. > >> Now I guess I can request sponsorship for the package. > >> > >> Samuel > >> Am 01.07.2013 12:42, schrieb Daniel Beyer: > >>> Hi Samuel, > >>> > >>> you should fix everything lintian reports, even the pedantic ones. > >>> Sometimes it might become necessary to override lintian, but with the > >>> remaining ones in your package, I don't think this needs to be done: > >>> > >>> > >>> W: exposong source: empty-debian-diff > >>> I suggest you remove the /debian directory from the upstream tarball, as > >>> it is recommended here: > >>> http://lintian.debian.org/tags/empty-debian-diff.html > >>> > >>> > >>> I: exposong source: missing-debian-source-format > >>> This one is easy to fix. Simply add a file /debian/source/format > >>> containing the following line: > >>> 3.0 (quilt) > >>> > >>> > >>> P: exposong: no-upstream-changelog > >>> The tarball that is found at > >>> http://exposong.googlecode.com/files/exposong-0.8.tar.gz contains an > >>> upstream changelog (/CHANGELOG.txt). I wonder why your > >>> exposong_0.8.orig.tar.gz on mentors.debian.net does not contains this. > >>> If it would be in your tarball, lintian would be satisfied... > >>> > >>> > >>> BTW.: Your /debian directory contains some files ending with '~'. Those > >>> looks like some backups generated by your texteditor automatically. I > >>> suggest you delete those - or at least drop them out of your > >>> packaging... > >>> > >>> > >>> Greetings > >>> Daniel > >>> > >>> > >>> Am Montag, den 01.07.2013, 12:14 +0200 schrieb Samuel Mehrbrodt: > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> can someone again have a look please: > >>>> https://mentors.debian.net/package/exposong > >>>> > >>>> I fixed most of the warnings. Is it neccessary to fix _every_ warning or > >>>> is the package in a good shape to be include in Debian? > >>>> > >>>> Thanks > >>>> Samuel > >>>> Am 26.06.2013 13:24, schrieb Tobias Frost: > >>>>> Am Mittwoch, den 26.06.2013, 11:40 +0200 schrieb Samuel Mehrbrodt: > >>>>>> Hi, > >>>>>> Do I really need to have a manpage for my program? > >>>>>> And what is a watch file? > >>>>>> > >>>>> Yes, you need a manpage, see policy 12.1 > >>>>> (It will also create the lintian warning binary-without-manpage) > >>>>> > >>>>> A watch file helps to detect if there is a new upstream version. > >>>>> See uscan(1), http://wiki.debian.org/debian/watch/ and the policy 5.22 > >>>>> > >>>>> coldtobi > -- Daniel Swiss
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