Bug#911072: RFS: batctl/2018.3-1~bpo9+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 
stretch-backports. 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 (with Simon) maintainer 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~bpo9+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~bpo9+1.dsc

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

Changes since the last upload (stretch 2016.5-1):

 batctl (2018.3-1~bpo9+1) stretch-backports; urgency=medium
 .
   * Rebuild for stretch-backports.
 .
 batctl (2018.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * New Upstream Version
 .
 batctl (2018.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * New Upstream Version
 .
 batctl (2018.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * New Upstream Version
 .
 batctl (2018.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * New Upstream Version
   * debian/control
     - Change Vcs-Git and Vcs-Browser to salsa.debian.org
   * debian/copyright:
     - Update copyright years
     - Adjust license of batman_adv.h
 .
 batctl (2017.4-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * New Upstream Version
   * Upgraded to policy 4.1.2
     - Switch from priority extra to optional
   * Change documentation filename to README.rst
   * Change changelog filename to CHANGELOG.rst
 .
 batctl (2017.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * New Upstream Version
   * Upgraded to policy 4.0.1.0
     - Switch from priority extra to optional
   * debian/patches:
     - Remove upstream merged
       batctl-Fix-error-message-when-traceroute-packet-send-fail.patch
 .
 batctl (2017.2-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Upload to unstable
   * debian/patches:
     - Add batctl-Fix-error-message-when-traceroute-packet-send-fail.patch,
       Fix error message when traceroute packet send failed
 .
 batctl (2017.2-1) experimental; urgency=medium
 .
   * New Upstream Version
   * debian/control:
     - update to debhelper 10
   * Upgraded to policy 4.0.0, no changes required
   * debian/rules
     - Remove ddeb migration conflict against pre-stretch package
 .
 batctl (2017.1-1) experimental; urgency=medium
 .
   * New Upstream Version
 .
 batctl (2017.0-1) experimental; urgency=medium
 .
   * New Upstream Version
   * debian/copyright:
     - Update copyright years

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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