#900958 ITP: barebox -- bootloader and its host tools

#900958#5
Date:
2018-06-07 10:20:43 UTC
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* Package name    : barebox-host-tools
  Version         : 2018.05.0
  Upstream Author : Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutonix.de> and others
* URL             : https://barebox.org
* License         : GPL, LGPL
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : useful development tools from the barebox source tree

Barebox is a bootloader for booting Linux on embedded devices. Its
source tree contains some useful tools which can also be used
stand-alone:

- bareboxenv: generate or read a barebox environment archive
- bareboximd: Extract metadata from a barebox image
- imx-usb-loader: USB image loader for i.MX series processors
- omap3-usb-loader, omap4_usbboot: USB image loaders for OMAP processors

I plan to package the last two tools into separate binary packages.

With certain effort, barebox itself could also be packaged as a
bootloader, but the host tools should suffice for now.

I'm not a Debian maintainer mysqlf, but Uwe (Cc'd) has already offered
to sponsor this package.

#900958#10
Date:
2018-11-29 10:14:36 UTC
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For the record, the current problem is assembling debian/copyright
automatically according to DEP-5. The file headers and copyright holders
are not always recognizable by licensecheck, but upstream is discussing
about using SPDX in the future, so I'll wait if that helps.

 - Roland

#900958#15
Date:
2020-09-16 10:57:41 UTC
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Hello,

I'm working on this (again) and intend to package barebox not only to
provide a tools package but also some bootloader images.

Roland told me that he currently doesn't find the time to maintain
barebox, so I'm taking over this ITP.

Best regards
Uwe

#900958#30
Date:
2021-03-29 19:25:58 UTC
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Hello Uwe,

Are you looking for any further assistance with this ITP? I am willing
to assist if required.


Thank you,

./drv


On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 12:57:41 +0200 Uwe =?utf-8?Q?Kleine-K=C3=B6nig?= wrote:

 > Control: retitle 900958 ITP bareobx -- a bootloader and its host tools
 > Control: owner 900958 !
 >
 > Hello,
 >
 > On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 11:14:36AM +0100, Roland Hieber wrote:
 > > For the record, the current problem is assembling debian/copyright
 > > automatically according to DEP-5. The file headers and copyright
holders
 > > are not always recognizable by licensecheck, but upstream is discussing
 > > about using SPDX in the future, so I'll wait if that helps.
 >
 > I'm working on this (again) and intend to package barebox not only to
 > provide a tools package but also some bootloader images.
 >
 > Roland told me that he currently doesn't find the time to maintain
 > barebox, so I'm taking over this ITP.
 >
 > Best regards
 > Uwe
 >
 > --
 > Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-König |
 > Industrial Linux Solutions | https://www.pengutronix.de/ |

#900958#35
Date:
2021-10-19 19:43:14 UTC
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Hello,

I somehow missed your reply, sorry, just found it by chance now.

My plan is to first convert barebox to use SPDX to simplify (and only do
once) the copyright stuff. If you want to help here, that would be
great. I can share my scripting if you want. As you might have noticed
it's not top-priority on my side, but occationally I send a conversion
patch, the last one is

https://git.pengutronix.de/cgit/barebox/commit/?id=e88ac96a532fbe056bf45cfa0fa1ebf28c193c41

Best regards
Uwe