[pkg-fso-maint] packaging for qi: please review and comment

Sebastian Reichel sre at debian.org
Mon Jun 6 09:20:28 UTC 2011


On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:44:54AM +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> most of the software that I run on my freerunner are properly packaged
> in debian. The only three major exceptions have been boot loader, linux
> and ogsmd (I made some hacks since I don't want to run the full
> fso-frameworkd stuff).
> 
> I tried to rebase the u-boot patches against current u-boot. I gave up
> after two hours. It can be done but needs somebody who wants to spend
> time learning Qi and has time to play with debug board for a month. Sad,
> bu that's the impression I got.
> 
> So, the final solution is to package Qi. Initial version is at
> 
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-fso/qi.git
> 
> Please review and comment it. I'm not asking for sponsors right now so
> don't be afraid that it'll cause extra work for you :-) It's lintian
> clean, builds in unstable pbuilder and should have complete
> debian/copyright, however. I also tested both documented installation
> methods.

Here are some notes/questions:

1. Why do you install to "/usr/lib/qi/gta02" instead of
   "/usr/lib/qi/s3c2442"?

2. AFAIK upstream switched from [0] to [1].

3. Don't forget to report & insert the ITP bug ;)

[0] "http://git.openmoko.org/?p=qi.git;a=summary"
[1] "http://gitorious.org/0xlab-bootloader/qi-bootloader"

-- Sebastian
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