Greetings!
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.
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 support the users
of this very old version. Also, recent kernel changes will break lirc
0.9.0 in some usecases.
Of course, I have tried to make the update to Debian. However, the
debian lirc maintainer is inactive, so this road is complicated. I have
tried, really, for more or less a year. I have a packaging and a
sponsor, but I'm blocked on the maintainer.
So, questions: Is it policy-wise possible to update lirc in universe to
0.9.4 even though Debian is still at 0.9.0?
If possible, how should it be handled? The update cannot really be
handled as a diff (891 files changed: 147080 insertions, 77248
deletions). It's basically new packages.
There is a a PPA with a 0.9.4 packaging at [2]. The changelog is a
mess, see below for a tentative entry
Cheers!
--alec
[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/lirc
[2] https://launchpad.net/~leamas-alec/+archive/ubuntu/lirc-0.9.4
---------------------------------------------------------- tentative
changelog -------------------------------------------------------------
* Non-maintainer upload.
* First shot on major upstream updates.
- Re-packaged from scratch based on new dh primitives.
- Thanks for help on debian-mentors!
* New upstream release 0.9.4
- Release 0.9.1 .. 0.9.3 was never packaged.
- Old 'lirc' service split into separate systemd services:
lircd.service, lircmd.service and irexec.service.
- Revised package structure: keep old liblircclient0 (renamed to
liblirc-client0). Adding new packages liblirc0 and lirc-doc.
Former liblircclient-dev merged into new liblirc-dev.
- Fixes "Not updated to last version" (Closes: #777199).
- Fixes "Default device for mode2 is /dev/lirc" (Closes: #702140).
- Fixes "/var/run/lirc contents disappear..." (Closes: #676343).
- Fixes "lircrcd segfaults" (Closes: #780062).
- Fixes "'/etc/init.d/lirc restart' is broken" (Closes: #782091).
- Fixes "Prompting due to modified conffiles..." (Closes: #655969).
- Fixes "LIRC installs bad udev rule" (Closes: #804397),
users depending on this rule will need to explicitly start lircd.
* The built-in irman support is moved to the lirc-drv-irman package,
lirc does not depend on libirman
* Old lircd output socket link /dev/lirc dropped. Use
/var/run/lirc/lircd.
* Updated copyright
* Fix hardening build flags.
* Ship sysV updated scripts from the svn tree. [Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]
* Update compiler flags: -Wl,as-needed + hardening
[Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]
* Avoid negative architecture deps like [!hurd] (Closes: #634807)
[Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]
* Add patch 0007-tools-remove-configs-symlink.patch + explicit link
to walk around #801719.
* Changing Vcs-* headers to point to upstream packaging branch.
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