[pkg-fso-maint] Bug#612966: Bug#612966: Merge with u-boot?

[Loïc Minier]

        Hey again

 I prepared an u-boot upload which ships fw_printenv and a fw_setenv
 symlink in u-boot-tools and which takes over uboot-envtools (dummy
 transitional package) in git at:
    git://git.debian.org/collab-maint/u-boot.git

 I'd prefer hearing from the maintainer, Per Andersson, to confirm it's
 ok for me to proceed to an upload; it would be towards experimental for
 now, but I'd move to unstable with the 2011.03 release of u-boot (or a
 pre-release).


 Some implementation notes:

 * I opted not to install the tools/env/README as it was mostly aimed
   towards people building the tools rather than using them
 * I have a warning with crc32()'s signature with gcc-4.5, but not with
   4.4; I'll file a bug to look into the warnings; my preference would
   be to use the same prototype as zlib (as uboot-envtools does in a
   Debian patch), but I'm not sure what this entails upstream; for now,
   this is built against the builtin crc32 in u-boot; I've opened a bug
   against the u-boot source package to remember about this
 * I copied over the examples and man pages (need to submit these
   upstream); perhaps the configs should be generated during the build
   instead; one important issue is copyright of the examples; I found a
   couple of authors via debian/changelog, but I decided that the data
   was publicly available and that the config files were mechanically
   derived from the factory hardware layout; concerning comments, most
   had no difference with upstream's; I found the following differences:
   * typos (redundand vs redundant)
   * qnap_ts101.config: explains primary versus secondary environment; I
     need to figure out what to do with this; I've included a stripped
     down version in the mean time
   * qnap_ts119-219.config: documents machine names; I decided this
     information was also mechanical
 * I checked the Vcs-Git packaging repo and rescued a fix from there;
   there are two things I didn't pick up:
   * uboot-envedit script; this does indeed make sense within u-boot,
     but I don't want to track multiple upstreams; maybe this should be
     sent upstream?
   * debconf / automatic configuration: I'm not too happy with more
     and more packages maintaining a list of board Hardware: names  :-/
     I have some ideas to fix this on the long term, but it will take
     time; also, I'm not too hot on debconf myself: I'd rather see d-i
     install the correct config, perhaps in flash-kernel or some udeb
     with board-specific knowledge
 * I checked the BTS and picked configs from #582832 and #582913 and
   commented on #591604 which should be kept open and moved to u-boot
 * I looked at debian/TODO; I am not sure I understood points 1 and 2
   being made there; Section/Priority seemed correct
 * I'm using a specially crafted Version: field for u-boot's
   uboot-envtools as u-boot's source version was lower

 Suggestions on the above are very welcome!

   Thanks
-- 
Loïc Minier