<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: inherit; margin:0;" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_0.12582881818525493">control: severity -1 important</pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: inherit; margin:0;" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_0.12582881818525493"><br></pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: inherit; margin:0;" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_0.12582881818525493">Hi dear maintainer, I write here to make you aware of my intent to NMU this package and lirc.</pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: inherit; margin:0;" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_0.12582881818525493"><br></pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: inherit; margin:0;" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_0.12582881818525493">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</pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: inherit; margin:0;" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_0.12582881818525493"><br></pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: inherit; margin:0;" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_0.12582881818525493">Cheers,</pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: inherit; margin:0;" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_0.12582881818525493"><br></pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: inherit; margin:0;" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_0.12582881818525493">G.</pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: inherit; margin:0;" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_0.12582881818525493">(Who hopes to hear something back soon from you)</pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: inherit; margin:0;" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_0.12582881818525493"><br></pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: inherit; margin:0;" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_0.12582881818525493">On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 12:09:45 +0200 Alec Leamas <leamas.alec@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 The current libirman package is outdated and needs an update: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] <a href="https://leamas.fedorapeople.org/libirman/deb/" data-yahoo-extracted-link="true">https://leamas.fedorapeople.org/libirman/deb/</a>
>
>
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