Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: wishlist

Dear mentors,

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

  * Package name     : portablemc
    Version          : 5.0.6-1
    Upstream contact : Théo Rozier <contact@theorozier.fr>
  * URL              : https://github.com/theorzr/portablemc
  * License          : Apache-2.0
  * Vcs              :
https://salsa.debian.org/theorozier/portablemc/-/tree/debian/unstable
    Section          : contrib/utils

The source builds the following binary packages:

   librust-portablemc-dev - launch Minecraft with Mojang versions and mod
loaders - Rust source
   portablemc - command line utility for launching Minecraft
   python3-portablemc - launch Minecraft with Mojang versions and mod
loaders - Python 3

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

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

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

   dget -x
https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/contrib/p/portablemc/portablemc_5.0.6-1.dsc

Changes for the initial release:

  portablemc (5.0.6-1) unstable; urgency=medium
  .
    * Initial release. (Closes: #1148005)

Notes for reviewers:

I'm the upstream author, so the packaging lives in the upstream repo on
the debian/unstable branch, with upstream tags merged in and built with
gbp. The orig tarball is the plain v5.0.6 tag, no repack needed.

The package is in contrib because it launches Minecraft, which is
non-free and downloaded from Mojang at runtime.

It builds three packages from one Cargo workspace using Debian's crates
(dh-rust):

  - portablemc: the CLI. Recommends Java, since it can fall back to
    Mojang-provided runtimes. Man pages are generated at build time.

  - python3-portablemc: the Python bindings, built with maturin through
    pybuild. Upstream embeds the CLI in the Python module; I build it
    without it so the CLI only comes from the portablemc package.

  - librust-portablemc-dev: the library crate. Nothing depends on it yet,
    I'm open to dropping it or moving it to the Rust team if preferred.

Four small Debian-only patches drop unpackaged workspace members and
Windows dependencies, and relax versions to what unstable has (zip,
rustls, pyo3).

Tests run at build time, and autopkgtests cover the crate, the CLI and
the Python bindings. Salsa CI is passing without blhc for now since it
does not understand well rustc.

Regards,