Re: Newbie: "Review request" on an updated LIRC package
On 30/10/15 09:51, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote:
> El Divendres, 30 d'octubre de 2015, a les 09:34:09, Alec Leamas va escriure:
>> Dear list,
>>
>> I'm the upstream LIRC [2] maintainer. We are currently in the 0.9.4
>> cycle which tentatively will be released around Christmas. The debian
>> official packaging is stuck on 0.9.0, and we have thus decided to
>> provide a debian packaging upstream [1] so Debian users should have a
>> more modern version available,
>>
>> I'm not seeking any argument as to why the Debian packages are still
>> 0.9.0. It's the debian packager's decision. Full stop.
>>
>> However, I'm all new to Debian packaging (although I have some RPM
>> experience). Because of that, I would really appreciate if someone on
>> this list could take a look at the current packaging and make an
>> informal review. I don't really know how to contribute in return, but if
>> someone by accident here needs help with an RPM package I'm here..
> Hi Alex,
Hi! Thanks for reply!
> why not try to contact directly with the lirc maintainers?
>
> https://packages.qa.debian.org/l/lirc.html
>
> Also, lirc package has several bugs
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?repeatmerged=no&src=lirc
They have got a copy. However, they have basically not responded to
anything lately, see e. g., [1]. Believe me, the decision to make an
upstream package is not an easy one.
Cheers!
--alec
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=777199
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