Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "lirc": * Package name : lirc Version : 0.9.4-devel Upstream Author : Christoph Bartelmus et. al. * URL : http://sf.net/p/lirc * License : GPLv2 and MIT Section : utils It builds those binary packages: lirc - Infrared remote control support - Daemons and utils lirc-doc - Infrared remote control support - Website and manual docs. liblirc0 - Infrared remote control support - Runtime libraries liblirc-dev - Infrared remote control support - Development files lirc-x - Infrared remote control support - X11 utilities To access further information about this package see: http://mentors.debian.net/package/lirc Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lirc/lirc_0.9.4-devel-0.1.dsc More information can be obtained from upstream website: http://sf.net/p/lirc Changes since the last upload: * Non-maintainer upload. * First shot on major upstream updates. - Re-packaged from scratch based on new dh primitives. - Thanks for help on debian-mentors! * New upstream release 0.9.4 - Release 0.9.1 .. 0.9.3 was never packaged. - This is an experimental, pre-release package. - Old 'lirc' service split into separate systemd services: lircd.service, lircmd.service and irexec.service. - New package structure: lirc, lirc-doc, liblirc0, liblirc-dev with corresponding upgrade path dependencies. - Fixes "Not updated to last version" (Closes: #777199). - Fixes "Default device for mode2 is /dev/lirc" (Closes: #702140). - Fixes "/var/run/lirc contents disappear..." (Closes: #676343). - Fixes "lircrcd segfaults" (Closes: #780062). - Fixes "'/etc/init.d/lirc restart' is broken" (Closes: #782091). - Fixes "Prompting due to modified conffiles..." (Closes: #655969). - Fixes "LIRC installs bad udev rule" (Closes: #804397). * Old lircd output socket link /dev/lirc dropped. Use /var/run/lirc/lircd. * Update compiler flags: -Wl,as-needed + hardening [Stefan Lippers-Hollmann] * Avoid negative architecture deps like [!hurd] (Closes: #634807) [Stefan Lippers-Hollmann] * Add patch 0007-tools-remove-configs-symlink.patch + explicit link to walk around #801719. * Changing Vcs-* headers to point to upstream packaging branch. Currently, this package is maintained by pkg-lirc-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org which seems to be MIA. I have invoked the MIA procedure by sending message to the QA team. I have also requested to be member of this group. The packaging situation has been discussed: https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2015/10/msg00487.html The update is disruptive and needs manual intervention: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/11/msg00082.html Regards, --Alec Leamas
