Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "mintcam":

 * Package name : mintcam
   Version : 0.2.1-1
   Upstream contact : Alex Mirici <hilliedmikerano@gmail.com>
 * URL : https://github.com/jeaders/MintCam
 * License : MIT
 * Vcs : https://github.com/jeaders/MintCam.git
   Section : graphics

The source builds the following binary packages:

  mintcam - webcam application for photo capture and video recording

To access further information about this package, please visit the
following URL:

https://mentors.debian.net/package/mintcam/

Alternatively, you can download the package with 'dget' using this command:

  dget -x
https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/mintcam/mintcam_0.2.1-1.dsc

Changes since the last upload:

 mintcam (0.2.1-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium

   * Initial Debian packaging (Closes: #1150659)
     - built from the 0.2.1 upstream release, MIT licensed
     - PySide6/cv2/numpy/pyzbar/Pillow installed into a per-user virtualenv
       on first start; system dependencies are declared in Depends
     - the reasoning is documented in debian/README.source
     - Vcs fields added, debian/README.source explains the venv design

Three points I would rather raise myself than have discovered during review:

1. Why a virtualenv and not the Python modules from the archive: the app
needs
   PySide6, opencv, numpy, pyzbar and Pillow. PySide6 alone is split into
many
   packages in the archive and I did not want to vendor several hundred
   megabytes of wheels. /usr/bin/mintcam creates a venv under
   ~/.local/share/mintcam/.venv on first start and pip installs the shipped
   requirements.txt into it. Anything that must come from the archive is in
   Depends: v4l-utils, ffmpeg, libxcb-cursor0, libzbar0, python3-venv,
   python3-pip. The trade-off is that the first run needs the network and
takes
   a minute. If the archive modules are preferred, I will switch.

2. Non-native 3.0 (quilt) with a separate orig tarball, arch: all, and the
only
   build dependency is debhelper-compat (= 13).

3. This is my first Debian package, so I expect a round of corrections.

Regards,
  Alex Mirici <hilliedmikerano@gmail.com>

No.

Closing.