On 30/10/15 09:51, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote: > El Divendres, 30 d'octubre de 2015, a les 09:34:09, Alec Leamas va escriure: >> Dear list, >>
>> 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.. > Hi Alex, Hi! Thanks for reply! > why not try to contact directly with the lirc maintainers? > > https://packages.qa.debian.org/l/lirc.html > > Also, lirc package has several bugs > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?repeatmerged=no&src=lirc They have got a copy. However, they have basically not responded to anything lately, see e. g., [1]. Believe me, the decision to make an upstream package is not an easy one. Cheers! --alec [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=777199
