[needs-packaging] wiringpi

[Dave Jones]

On the Raspberry Pi platform, the wiringpi package provides (yet another, but still a very popular) interface to drive the GPIO pins for a variety of functions (straight input and output, SPI, I2C, etc). It also provides the exceedingly useful "gpio" command line utility which many users find essential when debugging electrical circuits attached to the GPIO pins (in particular, its "readall" feature prints the position, mode, and state of all pins in a handy form including several pin numbering variations).

URL: http://wiringpi.com/
License: LGPL3+

[Dave Jones (waveform)]

A package containing version 2.50, adjusted for compilation on aarch64 is available from https://launchpad.net/~waveform/+archive/ubuntu/pkg/+packages

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

*** This is an automated message ***

This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

Hi Dave, thanks for your work on this!

Is there a reason this can't go to Debian first, and then flow down to Ubuntu? I will be happy to sponsor to Debian.

I have reviewed this package; here are some items which should be addressed:
 1. The current version of debhelper is 12, while this package has 10. Could that be updated?
 2. Standards-version is at 4.1.2, could that be updated to 4.3.0?
 3. Can this package only build on the four architectures you have specified in the PPA? Ubuntu builds for two additional architectures and Debian builds for many more; if it can only build for those four, you should replace "any" in debian/control with a space-separated list of architectures.
 4. After doing a copyright review, I found that some of the files only have a copyright notice for the author, and not the standard LGPL header, which should be fixed upstream. Additionally, in one file, another author is credited: "Additional code for pwmSetClock by Chris Hall <email address hidden>" (wiringPi/wiringPi.c), and in wiringPi/wiringShift.h the copyright dates go back to 2009.

Here's what Lintian returns:
I: wiringpi source: duplicate-short-description libwiringpi2-dev libwiringpi2
P: wiringpi source: package-does-not-install-examples examples/
P: wiringpi source: file-contains-trailing-whitespace debian/changelog (line 27)
P: wiringpi source: package-uses-old-debhelper-compat-version 10
I: wiringpi source: out-of-date-standards-version 4.1.2 (released 2017-11-30) (current is 4.3.0)
I: wiringpi source: testsuite-autopkgtest-missing
X: wiringpi source: upstream-metadata-file-is-missing
I: wiringpi source: debian-watch-uses-insecure-uri http://git.drogon.net/wiringpi.git
I: wiringpi source: debian-watch-contains-dh_make-template (line 1)
X: wiringpi source: debian-watch-does-not-check-gpg-signature
I: libwiringpi2: spelling-error-in-binary usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwiringPi.so.2.50 certianly certainly
I: libwiringpi2: hardening-no-bindnow usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwiringPi.so.2.50
I: libwiringpi2: hardening-no-bindnow usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwiringPiDev.so.2.50
I: libwiringpi2: no-symbols-control-file usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwiringPi.so.2.50
I: libwiringpi2: no-symbols-control-file usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwiringPiDev.so.2.50
X: wiringpi: application-in-library-section libs usr/bin/gpio
I: wiringpi: extended-description-is-probably-too-short

You can find detailed information about each tag here: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/

You aren't required to fix all of them (in fact, all of them are info or lower, so you don't have to), but addressing them would be beneficial and make a higher-quality package.

Unsubscribing sponsors for now, let me know if you have any questions.

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

This package is in ubuntu since focal, closing the bug.

$ rmadison wiringpi
 wiringpi | 2.50-0ubuntu1 | focal/universe | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, riscv64, s390x
 wiringpi | 2.50-0ubuntu1 | groovy/universe | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, riscv64, s390x
 wiringpi | 2.50-0ubuntu1 | hirsute/universe | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, riscv64, s390x