Dear list, This is my first contact with the Debian community. I might be doing all sorts of errors, including sending a questionable message to the wrong list. Just tell me, I'll listen.
I'm the upstream LIRC [2] maintainer. We are currently in the 0.9.4 cycle which tentatively will be released around Christmas. The debian official packaging is stuck on 0.9.0, and we have thus decided to provide a debian packaging upstream [1] so Debian users should have a more modern version available, I'm not seeking any argument as to why the Debian packages are still 0.9.0. It's the debian packager's decision. Full stop. However, I'm all new to Debian packaging (although I have some RPM experience). Because of that, I would really appreciate if someone on this list could take a look at the current packaging and make an informal review. I don't really know how to contribute in return, but if someone by accident here needs help with an RPM package I'm here. The package is not based on the current LIRC packages. The upstream is so much changed that I thought it was better to make fresh start. lintian is almost silent. Cheers! --alec [1] https://leamas.fedorapeople.org/lirc/debian-pkg/ {2] https://packages.debian.org/jessie/lirc
