Bug#708340: RFS: module-assistant/0.11.4+nmu1 [NMU] – tool to make module package creation easier
Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-CC: blade@debian.org
Dear mentors (and hi Eduard Bloch),
I am looking for a sponsor for the package "module-assistant" to get the
needed patches for compatibility with >= 3.7 kernel into Debian.
The package is marked by Eduard as LowNMU and the patches (by others) are
in the BTS for a while now, so hopefully without stepping on anyone’s toes:
Package name : module-assistant
Version : 0.11.4+nmu1
Upstream Author : Eduard Bloch <blade@debian.org>
License : GPL-2+
Section : kernel
It builds those binary packages:
module-assistant - tool to make module package creation easier
To access further information about this package, please visit the
following URL:
http://mentors.debian.net/package/module-assistant
Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command:
dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/module-assistant/module-assistant_0.11.4+nmu1.dsc
I have a git repo based on the one on collab-maint temporary pushed to
https://github.com/DonKult/module-assistant.git if you prefer that.
(collab-maint misses at least the tag for 0.11.4 though)
Changes since the last upload:
module-assistant (0.11.4+nmu1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* Non-maintainer upload.
* try to open new (Linux >= 3.7) location for version.h aswell
as the old location(s), thanks to Evgeni Golov (Closes: #697269)
* fix xgettext 'invalid variable interpolation at "$"' error in
strings, thanks to Stefan Lippers-Hollmann (also in #697269)
* add Portuguese translation by Américo Monteiro (Closes: #591421)
* change from (implicit) source format v1 to v3 (native)
* fix "useful"-typo in manpage (found by lintian)
* bump Standards-Version to 3.9.4 (no changes needed)
* remove \w from the dpkg-deb matching regex as utf-8 characters
like "»«" 'qualify' as such so that m-a isn't extracting the path
correctly: The regex is now '[^./]' to eat everything as needed.
I did slightly more than strictly needed ("shut-up lintian/dpkg changes") as
I simply couldn't resists. I hope you don't mind, otherwise I am fine with
whatever you want me to do instead. ;)
Note: I have left the suite at UNRELEASED, intended is unstable of course,
but I couldn't really find a consensus in this or the other direction here.
Disclaimer (just in case): My perl knowledge is nearly non-existent, which in
turn means that I am not able to help with maintaining m-a in the long-term.
Best regards
David Kalnischkies
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