Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : mantis-driver
* URL             : http://jusst.de/hg/v4l-dvb or 
http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/s2-liplianin
* License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : Kernel module for several DVB cards

The Mantis driver is used for a large number of Digital Video Broadcasting 
cards. There appear to be two competing forked projects writing these drivers, 
one by Manu Abraham (which I think is the original), and one by Igor M. 
Liplianin. I currently run the former, while the latter has been recommended to 
me recently. Both appear to be in active development. I make no attempt to 
recommend one of the other, in fact, it seems very hard to judge which is the 
best. I have also been told that it is unlikely that these drivers will go into 
the mainline kernels any time soon. 

In spite of these difficulties, the driver is important for DVB-support in 
Debian, and so I hope someone better qualified than me can take a look and 
choose one for packaging.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (90, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)



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