Hi Boruch and David, David: are you going to maintain this package?
Boruch: what’s your status on this? Have you prepared any changes you would like to upload? On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 13:27:25 -0400 Boruch Baum <boruch_b...@gmx.com> wrote: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: important > > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the existing debian package "urlscan[1]", > used by email clients such as mutt to parse and pipe embedded urls. The > debian package is an update and improvement to another debian package > "urlview", but[2] the debian version of "urlscan" is ten point releases > and over three years behind the upstream, the debian maintainer seems > not active[3], and that maintainer's sponsor has expressed to me a lack > of interest. Based upon an email from Paul Wise[4], and from reading the > debian manual[5], I guess the correct bureaucratic procedure is to start > a 'salvage' process; the circumstances seem to clearly fit within the > criteria of [5][6]. > > I am not subscribed to the debian-mentors mailing list, so please > include me directly in all replies. The remainder of this email is based > upon the RFS template[7]. > > Package name : urlscan > Version : 0.9.2 > Upstream Author : Scott Hansen > URL : https://github.com/firecat53/urlscan > License : GPL v2 > Section : mail > > It builds a python egg: > > urlscan > > To access further information about this package, please visit the following > URL: > > https://github.com/firecat53/urlscan > > Changes since the last upload: > > * Add shortcut to copy URL to clipboard (primary). > * Add option to pipe URL into external command. > * Add incremental search feature. (#13) > * Other misc bug fixes/enhancements (PR #74) > * Fix crash when URL list not visible. Closes #68 > * Fix unescape bug. Closes #67 > * Bugfix in browser handling. Fixes #70 > * Fix crash caused by webbrowser module bug. > * PEP8 fixes/modifications > * Update tld list > * Fix up arrow bug. Closes #66 > * Add optional config file for editing/adding palettes. > * Simplify palette variable to only used values. Cycle through available > palettes > * Merge branch 'runtime_palette_switch' of > https://github.com/machinedgod/urlscan into > machinedgod-runtime_palette_switch > * Fix crash when BROWSER not set. Closes #60, Fixes #63 > * Don't handle mouse events. Fixes #65. > * Hitting 'b' key now switches palettes > * Allow https URLs for images > * Add #51. Execute arbitrary expression for URL in place of opening browser. > * More fixes for #48. Refresh screen after text browser use > * Fix #49. Deduplication display issue. > * Fix #50. Detect and add ability to remove escape char \ from URLs. -- Cheers, Andrej
