[Pkg-spca5xx-devel] new upstream spca5xx source package prepared

[Kel Modderman]

michel Xhaard wrote:
> Kel,
> Happy to hear you:) did you received my last mail about spca5xx change ?
>   

Yes, I did. (and always good to hear from you too ;-)

> I did not see the mail in the list so maybe it is filtered :(
> I need your opinion, instead of a kernel module alone the v4l2 branch 
> "gspca" (that should have a v4l1 support to :) ) will include in the futur a 
> webcaming application and a userspace driver, of course this is a lot of 
> works, and i will setup the package step by step. Did you think this is a 
> problem for Debian packaging ? 

I think the actual packaging of 'gspca' for distribution has not much 
relevance in this case and am more than happy to do the extra packaging 
work to support gspca in Debian and Kanotix.

The only real drawback is the wait after an initial upload to debian, as 
the ftpmasters decide whether or not to accept the new packages, and 
this is not too much to worry about, imho.

Also note, I am not a "Debian Developer", therefore I rely on Otavio for 
advise and to take care of the actual upload to Debian. I can however 
use the Kanotix project as an experimental "staging ground" for the new 
stuff.

> If yes can you make me some suggestion ?
>   

No suggestions (yet!), I think you are doing a magnificent job so far 
and I trust that the planned changes are going to result in a better 
driver for the end user.

> The whole package under developpement should be available for testing soon 
> only for developper, let me know if you are interrested ?
> Cheers,
>   

Sure I am interested. I am not sure how much I can contribute to the 
actual development of gspca, but I can surely report problem and success 
stories to you when I get the chance to play around with the new stuff.

In fact, I should probably subscribe to your mailing list . . .

Thanks, Kel.