Hi, On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 23:23 +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > it would be better to create a seperate source package for every major > ivtv release. this way different linux kernel versions could be > supported.
My intention has been/is to always have an ivtv which matches the latest packaged kernel in unstable and to allow it to propagate to testing at the same time as that kernel. The current glitch was because 0.6.x propagated to testing before kernel 2.6.16 did (I forgot the RC bug to stop it). The current plan is to let 0.6.3-2 propagate to testing and then to upload 0.7.x. This upload will have an RC bug filed until 2.6.17 moves to testing. I'm away most of next week so I'd expect that to happen after that, which is roughly when the 10 day wait for 0.6.3-2 finishes anyway. > currently only one kernel version (2.6.16) is supported. if we had > ivtv0.6, ivtv0.7 and soon ivtv0.8 in debian, 2.6.16, 2.6.17 (and soon > 2.6.18) would be supported. Around about the time of 2.6.19 (was .18, .17...) upstream expects the ivtv driver to be merged upstream which is why I didn't upload the multi-version packages -- it should soon become unnecessary. I admit I (and upstream) thought "soon" would be earlier than it turned out to be though ;-) As it happens there are packages following the scheme you propose on www.hellion.org.uk/ivtv although I didn't add 0.7.x there yet. They work well but aren't really fit for uploading. > i don't know the situation of the mythtv maintainer team, but if help is > needed i can help with maintaining ivtv. The ivtv maintenance burden is pretty light so I think I'm managing OK. I'm not sure what is happening on the mythtv side of things. Christian Marillat maintains packages at debian-multimedia.org which I think many people use but the pkg-mythtv work on alioth doesn't appear to have gathered much momentum. > i think that ivtvdev (the ivtv X driver) should be packaged for debian > as well. Definitely. For me this is/was pending on an upstream release which uses the X.org 0.7 build system. I (and others I think) have proposed patches upstream but nothing has come of that yet. I didn't especially want to get into maintaining that sort of divergence from upstream but I've been waiting for so long now I think I might just bite the bullet soon. I've just filled an ITP (#380174) since there wasn't one yet. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian Campbell Kids always brighten up a house; mostly by leaving the lights on. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
