[Pkg-electronics-devel] Packaging the program ft232rprog

[Karl Edler]

Hello,

I like to use the program ft232rprog (http://rtr.ca/ft232r/) to set the
parameters in the FTDI line of USB chips (http://www.ftdichip.com/). It
would be convenient if a nice package were included in major distros like
ubuntu. This program is extremely good but very poorly advertised.

I am new to packaging but I managed to make a working .deb file. How might
they be added to Debian, Ubuntu and friends? I attached the .deb file and
related files to a previous message but they took too much space and my
email was rejected from the list.

I asked the program's author (Mark Lord) about what he thought about
packaging. The following is a copy of our email exchange.

On 12-07-03 08:46 AM, Karl Edler wrote:
> Hello Mark,
>
> I really liked your ft232r_prog program which I found on your website.
> It saved me from some windows pain in using the FTProg program from
> FTDI.
>
> Being over-zealous, I thought it would be nice to produce an ubuntu
> package for this program and possibly have it included in the list of
> things that are available under "apt-get install". My goal is selfish,
> I want to make installation of this code anywhere very very simple. I
> have never done this before but making a .deb package was actually
> quite easy.
>
> Are you okay with this?

Yep, go for it, thanks!

> I noticed that you did not specify a license for your code. What would
> you like the license to be?


Totally free software, use as you please,
no obligations whatsoever.

Cheers
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