Hi, I'm looking for a potential sponsor for em8300 package [1]. Nicolas Boullis, the previous maintainer of the package, had called for help with the package maintenance [2], and has since had to stop working on the package entirely due to personal commitments. Before this, under Nicolas' guidance I had been working on a new set of em8300 packages [3]. Unfortunately he will be unavailable for an unknown time and has advised that I seek a sponsor to adopt the packages. em8300 is a kernel module and associated tools for MPEG decoder cards based on Sigma Designs' EM8300 chip (such as the Creative Labs DXR3 or the Sigma Designs Hollywood+). Major things my version fixes: * New upstream. * Builds with recent kernels. * Closes a bunch of bugs (depmod, firmware location, and others) Known issues: * The install scripts call mknod. I know this is against policy, unfortunately this is required as there is no officially allocated device number and no device node managed by MAKEDEV. (devfs and udev find this irrelevent, for obvious reasons.) * This version doesn't support multiple firmwares, whereas previous versions did. Most people aren't going to want more than one firmware, but the problem is now how to handle upgrading systems that have more than one firmware installed. I'm thinking the solution is to prompt the user through debconf if this is an issue, and offer them options, but I'd like some other opinions. * Template translations aren't updated yet. I plan to submit to translation teams for updates once the issue above (and any other that may crop up) is worked out. Anyone interested in having a look? Peace, Brendon [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/em8300.html [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=346583 [3] dget http://tachyon.no-ip.org/em8300/em8300_0.15.3-1.dsc
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