[Pkg-electronics-devel] Packaging the program ft232rprog

[أحمد المحمودي]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 01:15:52PM +0100, Karl Edler wrote:
> 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.

You can either:

1) Upload the source package to Debian mentors [1], and send us the link 
here to review it.

2) Join the pkg-electronics team [2] and add your work to the git 
repository.

> > 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.

Upstream needs to specify a license and include it in the upstream 
tarball. You can suggest something like GPLv3 or later to him.


[1] http://mentors.debian.net/
[2] https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-electronics/

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