[Pkg-lirc-maint] Bug#801588: libirman: Multiple issues, some of which blocks updating LIRC

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

control: severity -1 important
Hi dear maintainer, I write here to make you aware of my intent to NMU this package and lirc.
Let me know if you need a sponsor or you want to review changes, otherwise I'll follow NMU rules because the team seems dead and nobody seems interested in lirc anymore
Cheers,
G.(Who hopes to hear something back soon from you)
On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 12:09:45 +0200 Alec Leamas <leamas.alec at gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: libirman
> Version: 0.4.4-2
> 
> The current libirman package is outdated and needs an update:
>  - The package does not include a shared library.
>  - The note in the description that upstream does not generate
>    a shared library is plain wrong.
>  - The version is old (upstream is 4.4.6) with multiple compilation
>    warnings.
>  - The test tools described in the README file are not packaged.
>  - The local patches are fragile since the are applied to generated
>    output from autoconf et. a.l. They will probably break for every
>    release (like they have now).
>  - lintian produces several warnings including missing relro linkage
>    and seems generally unhappy with the package.
> 
> In it's current form, it not possible to build upstream LIRC if this
> package is installed. LIRC has code to detect if the library is
> installed or not, but this breaks when there is a static library but no
> shared. The only solution is to remove the package (and thus the LIRC
> libirman support).
> 
> An updated library is available at [1]. I'm very new to debian
> packaging, so it's probably full of all sorts of errors. That said, this
> package:
>    - Updates to upstream 0.4.6.
>    - Makes a fresh start with control and rules to get a modernization.
>    - Creates a new binary package with shared libraries.
>    - Adds some new files to the -dev package
>    - Uses autoreconf + patching configure.ac + Makefile.am to get
>      more sane patches.
>    - Mutes all lintian warnings except missing manpages.
>    - Updates the package descriptions.
> 
> 
> 
> --alec
> 
> [1] https://leamas.fedorapeople.org/libirman/deb/
> 
> 
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