Package: lirc
Followup-For: Bug #777199
I deploy Debian 8-based TVs in prisons, using lircd for the remote control.
I want to lock down lircd using systemd.exec(5) options like
{RuntimeDir,User}=lirc.
It looks like this will be easier with 0.9.3 than 0.9.0~pre1.
I started looking into updating Debian's lirc package, and I found this:
$ svn diff
svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-lirc/lirc/{tags/0.9.0~pre1-1.1,trunk}/debian
[...]
+lirc (0.9.1a-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+ * NOT RELEASED YET
+ * DO NOT UPLOAD
+ * Work in progress, because of #655969 and the new upstream.
[...]
+ -- Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <[email protected]> Mon, 16 Apr 2012 03:04:24 +0200
[...]
Stefan et al,
* Are you still maintaining lirc in Debian?
For 8 months, there has been no discussion on the mailing list:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-lirc-maint/
OTOH, "wnpp-check lirc" reports no RFH/O bugs.
* What needs to be done to get 0.9.3 into stretch?
From the todo list in trunk/debian/changelog,
it looks like the main/only remaining issue is handling upgrades smoothly.
* Can I help?
I'm a lapsed DM; my focus was apps (darcs, midori, crawl).
I don't have much experience with handling upgrades.
