Bug#1036742: ITP: libvatek -- Userland library to access USB devices based on VATek chips
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Thierry Lelegard <thierry@lelegard.fr>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, thierry@lelegard.fr
* Package name : libvatek
Version : 3.08
Upstream Author : Richie_Chang <a83912a@gmail.com>
* URL : https://github.com/VisionAdvanceTechnologyInc/vatek_sdk_2
* License : BSD
Programming Lang: C
Description : Userland library to access USB devices based on VATek chips
The libvatek library accesses USB devices which are based on VATek chips
through libusb. VATek chips are used in digital television systems, in
modulator devices. This library is used by applications which need to
drive VATek-based modulators.
Why is this package useful/relevant?
This package is required by TSDuck, the MPEG Transport Stream Toolkit.
TSDuck is used in many digital television or video streaming systems
(see https://tsduck.io/). TSDuck is currently separately packaged for
Debian (as well as other distros and operating systems). The purpose
is to propose the integration of TSDuck into Debian. A prerequisite
for this is the availability of libvatek (this report).
The libvatek library is developed by Vision Advanced Technology Inc
(VATek) and is available as open source under the BSD-2-Clause
license. The "upstream author" above is the maintainer of the library
inside VATek Inc. The library is already integrated in HomeBrew (open
source package manager for macOS). A binary installer is provided for
Windows but no pre-built package is available for any Linux distro.
Package maintenance:
I am the author and maintainer of TSDuck. I have no connection with
VATek Inc, the author of libvatek. But I can maintain the libvatek
packet, as a dependency for TSDuck.
I need a Debian sponsor since I am not part of any Debian packaging
team. A co-maintainer would be useful, at least at the beginning.
Note that libvatek is a very simple package (one shared object and
a few C/C++ header files).
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