[Pkg-electronics-devel] is the electronics team a suitable home for lg-gpio ?

[Carsten Schoenert]

Hello Peter,

Am 22.06.21 um 16:00 schrieb Peter Green:
> Hi
> 
> lg-gpio is a library for gpio and related functionality (SPI I2C etc)
> in C and python, functionality wise it is similar to pigpio from the
> same author, but unlike pigpio which is very much a raspberry pi
> specific package (accessing the hardware directly, using the 
> "userspace mailbox interface" which only exists in Debian kernels),
> lg-gpio is more generic>
> Dave Jones (upstream maintainer of gpiozero and member of the Ubuntu
> raspberry pi team) has packaged lg-gpio in Ubuntu and we are
> considering bringing it into Debian and using it as the default
> backend for the gpiozero package. This would improve the out of the
> box experiance (currently the default backend is rpi.gpio which
> requires iomem=relaxed on the kernel command line to work on Debian
> kernels) and in the longer term should allow us to support remote
> gpio with both the client and server on plain Debian. It would also
> open up the possibility of supporting other SBCs in>
> Would the electronics team be a suitable home for such a package.

so far there is no hard policy which justifies if a package is a good or
valid package for the Debian Electronics teams except it should be have
at least some relationship to electronic stuff some how :-), so if you
think this would be the right place for this package you are welcome!

The reason for this team is mostly the same as for other teams, it's
mostly easier to keep a version up to date if more than one maintainer
is working on a package. But for most of the packages I see in the
electronics group the main packagers are looking at their packages
rather closely and there is no real need for team uploading.

Any way, I'd say just go ahead if you want to work here.

-- 
Regards
Carsten