Bug#896455: RFS: cdist/4.8.4-1

[Dmitry Bogatov <KAction@gnu.org>]

Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: wishlist

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "cdist"

* Package name     : cdist
  Version          : 4.8.4-1
  Upstream Author  : Nico Schottelius <nico-debian-cdist@schottelius.org>
* Url              : http://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/cdist/
* Licenses         : GPL-3,GPL-3+
  Programming Lang : Python
  Section          : admin

 cdist is a usable configuration management system.
 It adheres to the KISS principle and is being used in
 small up to enterprise grade environments. It has the
 following noteworthy features:
 .
  * shell scripting configuration language
  * access to all control structures (if, case, for, while)
  * idempotent target properties
  * zero-dependencies: target system need only /bin/sh and ssh
  * push-based distribution
  * highly-scalable
 .
 cdist is an alternative to other configuration management systems
 like cfengine, bcfg2, chef and puppet.

It builds those binary packages:

  * cdist
  * cdist-doc

This package succesfully builds on debomatic machine:

  http://debomatic-i386.debian.net/distribution#unstable/cdist/4.8.4-1

Please note, that package is maintained with dgit(1) tool
using dgit-maint-merge(7) workflow. For more information about how to
sponsor this package, see dgit-sponsorship(7).

With /bin/sh following commands should suffice:

  $ git clone https://salsa.debian.org/iu-guest/cdist.git cdist
  $ cd cdist
  $ origtargz
  $ dgit sbuild

Changes since last upload:

  * New upstream release
  * Drop patch-fix-spelling-errors-in-manpages.patch (applied upstream)
  * Update standards version to 4.1.4 (no changes needed)
  * Explicitly add /sbin:/usr/sbin to PATH when executing remote code.
    Without this change some types fail when ssh server is dropbear, not
    openssh.

Regards,
  Dmitry Bogatov