Re: uboot-envtools and uboot-mkimage
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Adam D. Barratt
<adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 04:29 +0200, Per Andersson wrote:
>> Thibaut Girka is working on Debian Installer for the Openmoko FreeRunner
>> for Summer of Code with Debian. In order for this to work on Squeeze a
>> patch is needed for uboot-envtools, which I maintain.
>>
>> In the packaging git repository I have prepared a bump in debian package
>> revision from -2 to -3 for uboot-envtools, which includes the patch.
>
> Please could you let us see a debdiff for the proposed upload?
avtobiff@pong:~/debian/packages/pkg-fso$ debdiff
/var/cache/apt/archives/uboot-envtools_20081215-2_i386.deb
uboot-envtools_20081215-3_i386.deb
[The following lists of changes regard files as different if they have
different names, permissions or owners.]
Files in second .deb but not in first
-------------------------------------
-rw-r--r-- root/root DEBIAN/templates
-rwxr-xr-x root/root DEBIAN/config
-rwxr-xr-x root/root DEBIAN/postinst
-rwxr-xr-x root/root DEBIAN/postrm
Control files: lines which differ (wdiff format)
------------------------------------------------
Depends: libc6 (>= [-2.1)-] {+2.1), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0+}
Description: read/modify the environment for the [-bootloader-] U-Boot
{+boot loader+}
[-bootloader U-Boot.-]
{+U-Boot boot loader.+}
Installed-Size: [-128-] {+152+}
Version: [-20081215-2-] {+20081215-3+}
Excerpt from the changelog for the proposed upload
uboot-envtools (20081215-3) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/control: improved language in description.
* debian/control: bumped standards-version to 3.8.2.
* lsmipsel.config: corrected device name (Closes: #540361).
* uboot-envtools.postinst: corrected Linkstation 2 name.
* Added directories to be created.
* Added uboot-envedit script (Closes: #540039).
* debian/README.source: new file
* Introduced automatic device configuration.
-- Per Andersson <avtobiff@gmail.com> Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:22:47 +0200
>> Also, we need to do a NMU for uboot-mkimage in order to introduce a
>> simple patch that fixes padding on images for broken U-Boot versions.
>
> Have you talked to the maintainer of record about this? I see that the
> patch is in #584166 which he replied to in June saying he would have a
> look.
Yes I have. The maintainer is happy to actually orphan the package
due to lack of time.
Best,
Per
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