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Bug#308692: IVTV packages available



On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 10:14 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 11:02:33AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 10:23 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 06:39:37AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > > You might be interested in http://www.hellion.org.uk/ivtv/index.html
> > > > which are my ivtv packages for the 0.2 and 0.3 branches of ivtv.
> > > 
> > > There has not been any more traffic in this bug report since August,
> > > and ivtv has not yet shown up in Debian. Any news on this?
> > 
> > I had been trying to find the time to write the manpages etc which are
> > required to make the packages lintian clean (I'll be honest: I doubt I'm
> > ever going to get round to it...). I guess that's only a minor bug which
> > can get fixed in time.
> 
> There is also one more bug: The packages seem to ignore version
> suffixes, to modules built for a 2.6.14.5-darren end up in
> /lib/modules/2.6.14.5 instead of /lib/modules/2.6.14.5-darren, which
> of course makes them hard to find.

I've heard this before and I _think_ it is a module-assistant bug (or at
least a bug in my usage of m-a). I'm not sure how to solve it since the
suffix doesn't seem to be easily available when building the modules.
With make-kpkg it works OK because the suffix is passed in already.

> > If you guys think that doesn't matter too much then I think the current
> > packages are in a state where they could be uploaded, assuming Eduard is
> > still willing to sponsor them.
> 
> If Eduard is too busy, I can sponsor you as well. However, I do not
> have too much clue about Linux TV as I am just getting started with
> that topic. I have a Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350 available for testing,
> though.

That would be handy, lets wait and see what Eduard says, he may well be
on vacation at the minute.

Ian.

-- 
Ian Campbell

You're too beautiful to ignore.  Too much woman.
		-- Kirk to Yeoman Rand, "The Enemy Within", stardate unknown

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