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 <leamas.a...@gmail.com>: > 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. > > > -- > Ubuntu-motu mailing list > Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu >
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