Re: Updating lirc to upstream

2016-05-24 Thread Robie Basak
Hi Alec, On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 11:29:38AM +0200, Alec Leamas wrote: > I am the upstream maintainer of the lirc [1] package which is part of > universe. Also, I am more or less new to the Ubuntu developing community. Welcome, and thank you for looking out for the lirc packaging in Ubuntu! >

Re: Updating lirc to upstream

2016-05-24 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi, forwarding to ubuntu-devel mail list :) MOTUs can't generally upload on main component :) G. Il Martedì 24 Maggio 2016 12:19, Alec Leamas ha scritto: Greetings! I am the upstream maintainer of the lirc [1] package which is part of universe. Also, I am more

Re: Updating lirc to upstream

2016-05-24 Thread Robie Basak
On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:21:13AM +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > MOTUs can't generally upload on main component :) I didn't notice this, thanks. Alec: it makes little difference to my comments though. They still apply; you'll need a core-dev sponsor, that's all. I wouldn't worry too much

Fwd: Re: Updating lirc to upstream

2016-05-24 Thread Alec Leamas
[resending message accidentally sent as PM] On 24/05/16 12:04, Robie Basak wrote: Hi Robie, My interest is to update lirc to a more recent version. As of today, lirc has released 0.9.4. Ubuntu is still on 0.9.0, from 2011, and this is becoming a problem upstream since we cannot really

Re: Updating lirc to upstream

2016-05-24 Thread Alec Leamas
On 24/05/16 14:02, Robie Basak wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:21:13AM +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: MOTUs can't generally upload on main component :) I didn't notice this, thanks. Alec: it makes little difference to my comments though. They still apply; you'll need a core-dev

Re: Updating lirc to upstream

2016-05-24 Thread Anton Balashov
Hello, Alec. Thank you for your contribution. IMHO, you should send similar email to debian community. They should be flexible enough to solve the issue with missing maintainer. That's would be right way. Thank you again. вт, 24 мая 2016 г. в 12:30, Alec Leamas : >

Re: Updating lirc to upstream

2016-05-24 Thread Alec Leamas
On 24/05/16 16:23, Anton Balashov wrote: Hello, Alec. Thank you for your contribution. IMHO, you should send similar email to debian community. They should be flexible enough to solve the issue with missing maintainer. That's would be right way. Thank you again. I have done that, many of