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Bug#644520: Bug#692863: ITP: heimdall -- tool for flashing firmware on Samsung Galaxy S devices



merge 644520 692863
thanks

On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 04:57:49PM -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> On 9 November 2012 16:43, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
> > * Package name    : heimdall
> >   Version         : 1.4~rc2
> >   Upstream Author : Benjamin Dobell
> > * URL             : http://www.glassechidna.com.au/products/heimdall/
> > * License         : MIT/X11
> >   Programming Lang: C++
> >   Description     : tool for flashing firmware on Samsung Galaxy S devices

> > Heimdall is a tool for flashing firmware (aka ROMs) onto Samsung Galaxy S
> > devices over a USB connection.  It accomplishes this using the same
> > protocol as Odin, Samsung's internal Windows-only firmware updater.

> > The naming of this tool is entirely logical from the upstream's perspective,
> > given that there are other related pieces of software called "Odin" and
> > "Loke".  However, there's an unfortunate namespace collision here with the
> > Kerberos implementation Heimdal.  Suggestions welcome on how to qualify
> > the source package name so that the packages are more than one letter off
> > from one another...

> There's another ITP that suggested heimdall-flash:
> http://bugs.debian.org/644520

Ah, indeed; sorry for the duplication.  I thought I had checked for
duplicates with reportbug before filing, but it turns out reportbug couldn't
reach the BTS at the time.

Marcin, since I'm actively using heimdall at the moment, I'd like to get
this into the archive sooner rather than later.  I've prepared a package
with the name from the original ITP, 'heimdall-flash'; I think this is
better than 'android-tools-heimdall' since this isn't part of the
android-tools upstream.  I've also incorporated several fixes from your
package, including your patch for the Qt #define conflict.

If you're interested in maintaining this package long-term, I'm more than
happy to hand it over to you after the initial upload...  just as long as it
keeps working with my device. ;)  (Philipp, the same goes for you as the ITP
owner - though you've been marked as owner since June, so maybe you're no
longer interested in this package?)  In the meantime, I'm uploading my
package to the NEW queue.  You can find my source package at
<bzr+ssh://bzr.debian.org/bzr/users/vorlon/heimdall/trunk/>.

Hope you're having fun in Barcelona :)

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
slangasek@ubuntu.com                                     vorlon@debian.org

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