RFS: gpart/0.1h-12 [NMU] -- Closes all outstanding bugs :)

[harish badrinath]

Hello,
Any feedback on the upload would be greatly appreciated. I am willing
to work on fixing most issue(s) (if any) raised by sponsors. I have
Top posted on top of the my complete previous message in case some one
needed it for reference.

Regards,
Harish Badrinath

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:46 AM, harish badrinath
<harishbadrinath at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Package: sponsorship-requests
>  Severity: normal
>
>  Dear mentors (and others),
>
>  I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gpart"
>
>  * Package name    : gpart
>   Version         : 0.1h-12
>   Upstream Author : Michail Brzitwa <mb at ichabod.han.de>
>  * URL             : http://www.brzitwa.de/mb/gpart/
>  * License         : GPL-2
>   Section         : admin
>
>  It builds those binary packages:
>
>    gpart - Guess PC disk partition table, find lost partitions
>
>  To access further information about this package, please visit the
> following URL:
>
>  http://mentors.debian.net/package/gpart
>
>
>  Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command:
>
>    dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gpart/gpart_0.1h-12.dsc
>
>  More information about hello can be obtained from
> http://www.brzitwa.de/mb/gpart/.
>
>
>  Changes since the last upload:
>
>   gpart (0.1h-12) unstable; urgency=low
>  .
>   * Added line to include quilt.make to rules.
>   * Added watch file and source format file.
>   * Bumped Standards version.
>   * Changed homepage to a reachable http://www.brzitwa.de/mb/gpart/ and updated
>     Authors email address to, one found at the website's footer.
> closes: #630336
>   * Made gparted build on amd64. closes: #619831
>   * Made gparted build on i386. closes: #619834
>   * Changed build script to handle no-stip build option. closes: #437067
>   * Fixed FTBFS on !linux-any. closes: #636814
>   * Related to building gparted on AMD64. closes: #397632
>   * Made a more helpful message whenioctl(HDIO_GETGEO) fails. closes: #341935
>   * Divided 01-conglomeration.patch, into smaller patches.
>
> Please note, Before filing this request for NMU :
> I had filed two bug reports which can be accessed at
> (a) bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=619834 and
> (b) bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=619831.
>
> Both of them generated no response in a timely fashion. I mailed the
> current maintainers (forensics-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org) seeking
> permission for a NMU upload and got no response.
> So i have CC'ed three lists seeking mentorship for a NMU upload.
> debian-mentors Mailing list : Because i seek mentorship for a NMU upload
> debian-forensics Mailing list : Because they are the maintainers of
> this fine piece of software
> debian-hurd Mailing list : Because it closes the FTBFS on debian/Hurd
> and adds some Hurd specific code fixes (ontop of FTBFS).
>
>
>  Regards,
>  Harish Badrinath