Bug#208692: ITP: picprog -- Microchip PIC microcontroller programmer software

[Daniel Martin <martin@snowplow.org>]

Jan Wagemakers <janw@easynet.be> writes:

> Package: wnpp
> Version: unavailable; reported 2003-09-04
> Severity: wishlist
>
>   Package name    : picprog
>   Version         : 1.3
>   Upstream Author : Jaakko Hyvätti <Jaakko.Hyvatti@iki.fi>
>   URL             : http://www.iki.fi/hyvatti/pic/picprog.html
>   License         : GPL
>   Description     : Microchip PIC microcontroller programmer software
>
> This is Picprog, a Microchip PIC microcontroller programmer software
> for the simple serial port device.
> .
> <URL:http://www.iki.fi/hyvatti/pic/picprog.html>

English nit: "a simple serial port device", not "the simple serial
port device".

But I'd like to ask - could you add the word "serial" to the short
description?  Say,

   Description     : Microchip PIC microcontroller serial programmer

or

   Description     : Microchip PIC serial programmer software

?

I ask because there's a well-known linux (x86 only, sadly) _parallel_
port PIC programmer called picprg.  (Among other things, picprg is the
way to get parallel port DonTronics PIC programmers to work in linux)

Hmm... picprg has not yet been packaged for Debian, and I already
maintain a different x86-specific parallel port bit-banging
program...