Hi, On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 03:55:38PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Mon, 2026-03-23 at 07:52:15 +0100, Manuel Traut wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Manuel Traut <[email protected]> > > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > > > * Package name : neard > > Version : 0.20 > > Upstream Contact: Krzysztof Kozlowski <[email protected]> > > * URL : https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/nfc/neard.git/ > > * License : GPL-2 > > Programming Lang: C > > Description : NFC - Near Field Communication manager > > > > NFC (Near Field Communication) daemon for managing > > NFC operations on devices running the Linux operating system. It relies > > on the Linux kernel NFC socket and generic netlink families, and is a > > fully modular system that can be extended through plug-ins. > > . > > It supports all 4 NFC tag types reading and writing, along with NFC LLCP > > (peer to peer mode) in both target and initiator modes. The Simple NDEF > > Exchange Protocol (SNEP), NDEF Push Protocol (NPP) and handover (Wi-Fi and > > Bluetooth) protocols are implemented as separate plugins on top of LLCP > > sockets. > > > > I plan to maintain it within the DebianOnMobile Team and would need a > > sponsor > > for the package. > > This used to be maintained in Debian, see > https://tracker.debian.org/neard, but it got removed. You might perhaps > be able to reuse the packaging (https://github.com/sameo/neard-deb), > although AFAIR the last upload never got integrated in the packaging git > repo (but if you want to have that, it should be available from > https://snapshot.debian.org).
thanks for the pointer! I already started from scratch (https://salsa.debian.org/DebianOnMobile-team/neard) shall I import in git what was there before and put my changes on top. Or is it fine like this? cheers Manuel
