RFS: envctrl
Hi,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package, envctrl.
This package contains sources for kernel modules that can only be built on
sparc64. I appreciate that this makes the package difficult for most people
to sponsor/fully review. If you don't have such a machine, I'd still
appreciate reviews of the packaging and you'll still be able to test
generation of the envctrl-source package.
If necessary I can provide a sponsor with shell access to my sparc64 box when
the package is looking like it's ready to be uploaded.
Package name: envctrl
Upstream Authors: Eric Brower <ebrower@gmail.com>, David Johnson
<dj@david-web.co.uk>
URL: http://www.david-web.co.uk/index.php?p=envctrl
License: GPL
Section: misc
Programming Lang: C, SPARC ASM
Description: Sources for the envctrl driver
This package provides the source code for the envctrl kernel modules.
These modules support the environmental monitoring hardware found in
Sun's E250 and E450 servers.
It builds these binary packages:
envctrl-source - Sources for the envctrl driver
The upload would fix these bugs: 433343
- dget
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/e/envctrl/envctrl_20070716-1.dsc
Some notes/questions:
* the package is lintian clean, as are -modules packages generated from
envctrl-source
* it is my intention that this package be uploaded to experimental
* for reference, here is a -modules package generated from the envctrl-source
package by module-assistant:
http://www.david-web.co.uk/download/envctrl-modules-2.6.22.1_20070716-1_sparc.deb
* even though envctrl-source is a source package, I have specified the
architecture as sparc because: -
i) the hardware these kernel modules support is only ever found on sparc
ii) the source contains some sparc ASM
* the modules only compile with kernels >= 2.6.20 - is there some way I can
specify this within debian/rules?
* the .orig.tar.gz was created during packaging - the module sources came from
SVN; there is no upstream tarball
* are -modules packages auto-generated by buildds for Debian kernels, or do I
need to manually build and provide -modules packages for upload?
Thanks in advance,
David.
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David Johnson
www.david-web.co.uk
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