Bug#436166: [Pkg-lirc-maint] Bug#436166: Progress notes

[Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>]

reassign 436166 lirc
stop

On Sat, Aug 11, 2007, Stephen Gran wrote:
> bttv.h is a 'private' header, and not included in the kernel headers
> shipped in Debian.  This is why there is an attempt at versioned bttv.h
> headers in lirc itself.  It's a bad hack, but I'm not sure what else can
> be done.

 Ok, thanks for the explanations.  I guess there are different ways to
 handle this issue:
 1) make the header public and ship it in the kernel headers; not sure
 this is likely to happen, no idea of the policy for such stuff
 2) ship the header in lirc; doesn't sound like a good idea
 3) document that you need a full kernel tree -- and not just kernel
 headers -- to build the lirc modules; wouldn't help our users that much
 I'm afraid
 4) 3 + automatically select the modules that can be built


 I think it would be best to prepare the newest upstream release first,
 and see what upstream recommends on this matter.


 I was happy to cleanup the packaging of lirc, but I can't really
 prepare an upstream myself as I don't own any lirc-supported hardware;
 I hope another person of the lirc team can prepare the new upstream
 release and test it until we revisit this issue.

-- 
Loïc Minier