Bug#1116042: ITP: fastrpc -- Qualcomm FastRPC
This is now uploaded. Some notes in relation to my upload to NEW:
"Is it worth including it in the archive?" from NEWChecklist: there's
quite a complex software stack involved here. This package is only part
of it. Further down the stack there's hexagon-dsp-binaries (Debian ITP
bug 1101838) and above we have packages like tensorflow. Ultimately this
will allow such software to take advantage of Qualcomm hardware
acceleration. This package is part of the story as we work our way
towards that goal.
The lintian warning about missing manpage is correct, would be a valid
bug against the package in Debian, and is tracked upstream at
https://github.com/qualcomm/fastrpc/issues/229
I've been working with upstream on integrated CI with other related
Qualcomm-specific upstreams against Debian, such that test failures
against distribution packaging tests can be identified and addressed
before upstream release. Since upstream uses GitHub, this is driven by
GitHub Actions, so we need to maintain some amount of packaging in
GitHub. So that's where we're maintaining the packaging right now, and
why it isn't (yet) in Salsa.
We intend to also maintain the packaging in Salsa to better integrate
with normal Debian development, together with moving to team
maintainership in Debian. This involves some arrangements around
workflows and discussions with appropriate existing teams and isn't
resolved yet. In the meantime, to make progress without everything
waiting on everything else, I'm uploading fastrpc to Debian now, as a
sole maintainer, with Vcs-* pointing to the GitHub VCS packaging
location.
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