blog/data/2013-01-10-pymissile.txt

   1 Title: Moved the pymissile Debian packaging to collab-maint
   2 Tags: english, debian, robot, isenkram
   3 Date: 2013-01-10 20:40
   4
   5 <p>As part of my investigation on how to improve the support in Debian
   6 for hardware dongles, I dug up my old Mark and Spencer USB Rocket
   7 Launcher and updated the Debian package
   8 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/pymissile">pymissile</a> to make
   9 sure udev will fix the device permissions when it is plugged in.  I
  10 also added a "Modaliases" header to test it in the Debian archive and
  11 hopefully make the package be proposed by jockey in Ubuntu when a user
  12 plug in his rocket launcher.  In the process I moved the source to a
  13 git repository under collab-maint, to make it easier for any DD to
  14 contribute.  <a href="http://code.google.com/p/pymissile/">Upstream</a>
  15 is not very active, but the software still work for me even after five
  16 years of relative silence.  The new git repository is not listed in
  17 the uploaded package yet, because I want to test the other changes a
  18 bit more before I upload the new version.  If you want to check out
  19 the new version with a .desktop file included, visit the
  20 <a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/pymissile.git">gitweb
  21 view</a> or use "<tt>git clone
  22 git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/pymissile.git</tt>".</p>