Bug#911071: RFS: batctl/2018.3-1~bpo8+1 [BPO]

[Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>]

Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: wishlist

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my backport of package "batctl" for 
jessie-backports-sloppy. It is required to use the netlink batadv commands 
which were introduced with newer kernel version. There were multiple members 
of the Freifunk community which observed this problem when they either used a 
newer backports kernel or when they've build the external batman-adv 
2018.2/2018.3 module (which has DEBUGFS disabled by default). Here is an 
example from yesterday:

    <ChristianD1> https://zerobin.fff.community/?ae8511ae06bb09c0#0FvEHmbKsRIQhTsIfhs87iRSbJMtorJ+LRup0N2oz6o= can anyone help me, why i can't look in he dat table?
    <ordex> ChristianD: is bat0 up ?
    <ordex> and is also ffffichtostVPN up?
    <ChristianD> yes and yews
    <ChristianD> it works fine
    <ChristianD> the complete mesh works fine, but i can't look into the dat table
    <ecsv> ChristianD: looks like you are using a batctl version which cannot talk via netlink to batman-adv
    <ecsv> (at least not to the dat cache)
    <ecsv> please update to at least batctl 2018.1
    <ecsv> or enable debugfs again in batman-adv

I am the current maintainer (with Simon) of batctl in Debian. And I also did 
the jessie-backports uploads in the past. But this upload must now go through 
NEW (tested this because I was not sure) and thus I need a sponsor for that.

 * Package name    : batctl
   Version         : 2018.3-1~bpo8+1
   Upstream Author : Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
 * URL             : https://www.open-mesh.org/
 * License         : GPL-2
   Section         : net

It builds those binary packages:

  batctl     - B.A.T.M.A.N. advanced control and management tool

To access further information about this package, please visit the following
URL:

https://mentors.debian.net/package/batctl


Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command:

  dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/b/batctl/batctl_2018.3-1~bpo8+1.dsc

More information about batctl can be obtained from https://open-mesh.org/.

Changes since the last upload (jessie-backports 2018.0-1~bpo8+1):

 batctl (2018.3-1~bpo8+1) jessie-backports-sloppy; urgency=medium
 .
   * Rebuild for jessie-backports-sloppy.
 .
 batctl (2018.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * New Upstream Version
 .
 batctl (2018.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * New Upstream Version
 .
 batctl (2018.1-1~bpo8+1) jessie-backports; urgency=medium
 .
   * Rebuild for jessie-backports.
 .
 batctl (2018.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * New Upstream Version

The full upstream changelog can be found at
https://git.open-mesh.org/batctl.git/blob/HEAD:/CHANGELOG.rst (or in the
package under /usr/share/doc/batctl/changelog.gz)

Regards,
	Sven Eckelmann

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