Request for sponsorship for new upstream release (xenial deb provided)

Hi,

We have just published a release release for Onboard. It contains the following changes:

onboard (1.1.2-0ubuntu1) wily; urgency=medium

  * Request for sponsorship for new upstream release (LP: #1547054)
  * debian/control: add gnome-shell-extension-onboard package
  * debian/copyright: rewrite to use machine readable DEP-5 format
  * debian/onboard.lintian-overrides: remove
  * debian/source.lintian-overrides:
    - false missing license warnings: the license texts are in separate files
  * debian/onboard.install:
    - remove usr/share/dbus-1 entry
    - replace usr/share/onboard/COPYING with usr/share/onboard/COPYING*
    - add usr/share/onboard/HACKING entry
    - add usr/share/help/C/onboard entry
    - add usr/share/man/man1 entry
  * debian/gnome-shell-extension-onboard.install: create
  * Word suggestions and auto-correction:
    - Add arrows to page through more suggestions and option to turn them off
    - Show capitalized suggestions even when SHIFT is off
    - Don't place the remove suggestion dialog behind Onboard
    - Improve behaviour of auto-punctuation
    - Begin preparations for lazy word separator insertion
    - Disable punctuation assistance when entering commands in the terminal
    - Disable spelling suggestions for URLs and file names
    - Disable auto-capitalization of URLs and file names
    - Add Bulgarian system language model
  * Layouts:
    - Improve Phone layout for cyrillic languages
    - Improve Small layout for cyrillic languages (LP: #1534210)
    - Shorten key label "horiz\nconn" to Gdk provided "ho"
    - If the layout contains a keysym error, show full hexcode of keysym
  * License and copyright information: (LP: #1412647)
    - Clarify the information
    - Update the information
    - Make it all available in the COPYING file
  * Unit tests:
    - Add test for modifier unlatching
    - Fix regression when importing Gtk without first specifying the version
    - Adapt to the removal of onboard-defaults.conf.nexus7
  * Preferences dialog:
    - Make Preferences->Keyboard->Advanced scrollable
    - Add status-icon-provider setting to Preferences (LP: #1454405)
    - Show sticky-key-release-on-hide-delay setting in Preferences
    - Rename "User layouts" to "My layouts"
  * Add initial GNOME Shell extension for Onboard
  * Replace old documentation with initial documentation in mallard format
  * Add man pages (thanks Mike Gabriel)
  * Detect default prompt of fish interactive shell in DomainTerminal
  * Add support for flake8
  * Type SHIFT+key on right click for uppercase letters, etc.
  * Add new auto-show repositioning method for reduced pointer travel
  * Add command to the licensing tool for writing licensing headers to files
  * Update tools/licensing list-committers to skip binary and unversioned files
  * Disable click sound in space feature, but keep gsettings key (LP: #1529140)
  * Remove copyright sign from service file to appease pbuilder
  * Allow the letter_frequencies tool to take a filename of a language model
  * Make builds on debian reproducible, thanks Mike Gabriel (LP: #1530519)
  * Update and improve the description of a number of gsettings keys
  * Don't auto-save language models while keys are being pressed
  * Remove unnecessary special treatment of ALT in override redirect mode
  * Remove fall-back to old virtkey API. Virtkey is part of Onboard now
  * Improve PEP8 compliance of various python files
  * Attempt to auto-show and keep Onboard visible in unity dash
  * Correctly position the language menu also in wily
  * Show rounded corners and transparency of the icon palette also in wily
  * Return transparency effects of the keyboard in wily
  * Don't invert the case of auto-typed suggestions when CAPS is enabled
  * Improve auto-show logic in the presence of text popups
  * Automatically insert a slash after the top level domain co
  * Improve window movement with enabled decoration when dragging the titlebar
  * Keep the keyboard active while moving by title bar (LP: #1461823)
  * Stop synchronisation of modifiers when Alt is active
  * Recognize a touch device with reception of a touch event
  * Enhance cleaning command of source tree
  * Trap the occasional X error BadDrawable causing Onboard to exit
  * Fix LibreOffice Writer losing text color on suggestions before a space
  * Fix Compiz wall plugin's viewport not always closing (LP: #1532254)
  * Fix some labels not being displayed in uppercase on Caps-Lock (LP: #1513773)
  * Fix extra space being inserted when replacing selection with suggestion
  * Fix auto-hide not extending delay while typing on physical keyboard
  * Fix D-Bus getting tripped up by zero bytes in hex label string
  * Fix Onboard stretching across width of unity-greeter in xenial
  * Fix start failure on xenial when D-Bus session is not available
  * Fix warnings about missing gi.require_version with python3-gi 3.18
  * Fix several depreciation warnings
  * Fix touch input with event source GTK and multi-touch mode, thanks J Wiegman
  * Fix touch events not being received in Kwin (LP:1470825)
  * Fix spurious backtrace on suggestions when accessible becomes invalid
  * Fix status icon size with lxpanel-indicator-applet-plugin (LP: #1467723)
  * Fix re.split() FutureWarning for python 3.5
  * Fix internat. character selection offset on high-dpi screen (LP: #1421840)
  * Fix left click on GtkStatusIcon fallback not working (LP: #1421972)
  * Fix stuck keys in keyboard popups with event source GTK
  * Fix auto-inserting separator Ĩ instead of space when NumLock is enabled
  * Fix initial Py_None not being dereferenced when copying OskDeviceEvents
  * Fix traceback when showing keyboard popups in Precise
  * Fix display of key popups for compiz and metacity in Precise
  * Fix segfault in the osk extension for Precise
  * Fix transparency effects on Precise
  * Fix stack smashing error with GCC 4.6.3 on Precise
  * Remove outdated files
  * Update HACKING file

 -- Francesco Fumanti <email address hidden> Thu, 18 Feb 2016 16:02:00 +0100

The debianisation attached to this request for sponsorship has been based on the Onboard package currently in the main xenial repository. On my uptodate Ubuntu xenial installation, the debianisation provided here successfully builds in my wily pbuilder environment and the resulting packages seem to be running fine here.

Could you please review the package for inclusion into the main xenial repository.

Don't hesitate to contact us if you need further information:
https://launchpad.net/~onboard/+contactuser or simply be writing in this bug thread.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Have a good day.

Francesco