[Pkg-bitcoin-devel] bfgminer package

[Luke-Jr]

On Saturday, April 27, 2013 3:30:15 PM Scott Howard wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 4:19 AM, Luke-Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> > Noticed you recently added cgminer to sid.
> > Would you perhaps be interested in also (or instead of) adding BFGMiner,
> > which is targetted for ASICs/FPGAs? Additionally, it supports GPU mining
> > using even the free Mesa/LLVM drivers (cgminer requires non-free fglrx).
> > 
> > https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer
> 
> Thanks Luke,
> 
> I filed two request for package bugs [1,2] for bfgminer and
> libblkmaker. Would you be interested in packaging/maintaining them?

"unit3" has already contributed a debian/ directory which he uses to maintain 
the Ubuntu PPAs. I think it just produces a single .deb, but maybe it can be 
split up. What else would be involved in packaging/maintaining them for 
Debian?

Thanks,

Luke