Re: Fwd: Re: Updating lirc to upstream

2016-05-26 Thread Alec Leamas
On 24/05/16 14:51, Alec Leamas wrote: [re-sending to correct list without large attachment] Hi Robie, >> So, questions: Is it policy-wise possible to update lirc in universe to >> 0.9.4 even though Debian is still at 0.9.0? > Yes, we can do this. Going faster than Debian is a valid reason. >

Re: Updating lirc to upstream

2016-05-24 Thread Alec Leamas
On 24/05/16 16:23, Anton Balashov wrote: Hello, Alec. Thank you for your contribution. IMHO, you should send similar email to debian community. They should be flexible enough to solve the issue with missing maintainer. That's would be right way. Thank you again. I have done that, many of t

Re: Updating lirc to upstream

2016-05-24 Thread Alec Leamas
On 24/05/16 14:02, Robie Basak wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:21:13AM +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: MOTUs can't generally upload on main component :) I didn't notice this, thanks. Alec: it makes little difference to my comments though. They still apply; you'll need a core-dev sponso

Fwd: Re: Updating lirc to upstream

2016-05-24 Thread Alec Leamas
[re-sending to correct list without large attachment] Hi Robie, Hi Robie, On 24/05/16 12:04, Robie Basak wrote: My interest is to update lirc to a more recent version. As of today, lirc has released 0.9.4. Ubuntu is still on 0.9.0, from 2011, and this is becoming a problem upstream since we

Re: Updating lirc to upstream

2016-05-24 Thread Robie Basak
On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:21:13AM +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > MOTUs can't generally upload on main component :) I didn't notice this, thanks. Alec: it makes little difference to my comments though. They still apply; you'll need a core-dev sponsor, that's all. I wouldn't worry too much

Re: Updating lirc to upstream

2016-05-24 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi, forwarding to ubuntu-devel mail list :) MOTUs can't generally upload on main component :) G. Il Martedì 24 Maggio 2016 12:19, Alec Leamas ha scritto: Greetings! I am the upstream maintainer of the lirc [1] package which is part of universe. Also, I am more or less new to the Ubuntu