libcec 8.1.6+dfsg2-1
Package Information
| Description | USB CEC Adaptor communication Library (development files) This library provides support for the Pulse-Eight USB-CEC adapter and other CEC capable hardware, like the Raspberry Pi. This package provides the necessary files needed for development. |
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| Maintainer | Barak A. Pearlmutter <bap@debian.org> |
| Changed By | Barak A. Pearlmutter <bap@debian.org> |
| Distribution | unstable |
| Architecture | any all |
| VCS | git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/libcec.git (browse) |
| Closes | #1134169 |
| Popcon Installs | 2246 |
| Binary NEW | Yes (binary-only upload) |
| Tracker | https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libcec |
| Uploaded | 3 days ago |
Potential Library Transition
This binary NEW upload drops binary packages that currently have reverse dependencies in unstable. A library transition may need to be coordinated with the Release Team before accepting this package.
| Dropped Binary | Rdeps in unstable |
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libcec7 | 4: kodi-bin, xineliboutput-fbfe, xineliboutput-sxfe, xineliboutput-wlfe |
The maintainer says no transition is needed and asked us to review anyway.
The package currently in the archive is FTBFS due to Python3/2 bit rot, this fixes that issue, and also some security issues. I'm in touch with the transition team already. If you really want I can upload to experimental, but with all these issues I'd like to get this transition made quickly. (There was a stupid copyright license issue w/ the previous upload, which is also in the source already in the archive. I've fixed and and repacked so this has no license issue not even a stupid one.)
— bap, 3 days ago
New Package Report
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| Version | 8.1.6+dfsg2-1 |
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| Changed-By | Barak A. Pearlmutter |
| Architecture | source amd64 all |
| Distribution | unstable |
| Date | Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:26:28 +0100 |
| Source | libcec |
Changelog
libcec (8.1.6+dfsg2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
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* Bump standards version
* New upstream version 8.1.6 (closes: #1145451)
* Repack to drop prebuilt Windows binaries (support/windows/*.exe,
support/windows/libusb0.dll); debian/copyright Files-Excluded and
+dfsg suffix
* SONAME bump, rename libcec7 to libcec8
* Upstream no longer uses p8-platform: drop libp8-platform-dev
build dep and the include/platform symlink
* Drop 03_reproducible_build.patch: superseded by upstream
DISABLE_BUILDINFO option, now passed by debian/rules
* Drop 04_fix_pkgconfig_libdir.patch: fixed upstream
* Install new cmake package config files
* Build with dh_python3 so python module is installed where interpreter
can find it; ship the _pycec extension module alongside cec.py;
without either, python3-libcec was unusable (closes: #1134169)
* New binary package librust-libcec-dev, the upstream Rust binding,
shipping the crate source under /usr/share/cargo/registry. Skipped
with build profile pkg.libcec.norust
* New binary package node-libcec, the upstream Node.js N-API addon,
built with node-gyp rather than cmake's ENABLE_NODE_LIB which would
need network access. Skipped with build profile pkg.libcec.nonodejs
* The .NET binding is not packaged
* debian/copyright: document AOCEC, IMX, Linux and EventGhost copyright
holders, and the vendored AMD ADL SDK headers
* Drop pkg-kde-tools build dependency, unused since d/symbols was
replaced by d/shlibs
* Bump debhelper compat to 14
- dh_dwz is no longer in the default sequence, which only grows
the -dbgsym packages
- cmake is automatically passed -DCMAKE_BUILD_RPATH_USE_ORIGIN=ON
* Strip libcec.a from debian/rules: dh_strip has a bug which makes it
think this static library is a text file and not strip it (NOTE:
remove this stanza when https://bugs.debian.org/875780 is fixed.)
* Move debian/ man pages to debian/man/, write one for pyCecClient, and
remove cec-config.1 which was unused.
* Ship cecc-client in cec-utils, as upstream's own packaging does, with
a man page. It uses libcec with dlopen and the C API rather than
linking, thus exercising the ABI the other bindings use.
* New patches 0004 / 0005 implement cecc-client --help / --list-devices,
both of which were stubs that silently printed nothing
* Repack to drop vendored AMD Display Library headers
(src/libcec/platform/adl/adl_{defines,sdk,structures}.h). Their
copyright notice disclaims warranty but grants no permission to use,
copy, modify or redistribute.
* Replace above headers with more recent version of the same headers,
which AMD republished under the MIT licence.
* Tiny patch to make the newer adl_*.h headers work..dsc
| Section | utils |
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| Priority | optional |
| Component | main |
| Package-List | cec-utils deb utils optional arch=any libcec-dev deb libdevel optional arch=any libcec8 deb libs optional arch=any librust-libcec-dev deb rust optional arch=all profile=!pkg.libcec.norust profile:v1=!pkg.libcec.norust node-libcec deb javascript optional arch=any profile=!pkg.libcec.nonodejs profile:v1=!pkg.libcec.nonodejs python3-libcec deb python optional arch=any |
debian/copyright
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ Upstream-Name: libcec Upstream-Contact: Lars Op den Kamp <lars.opdenkamp@pulse-eight.com> Source: https://github.com/Pulse-Eight/libcec Files-Excluded: support/windows/libusb0.dll support/windows/p8-usbcec-bootloader-driver-installer.exe support/windows/p8-usbcec-driver-installer.exe src/libcec/platform/adl/adl_defines.h src/libcec/platform/adl/adl_sdk.h src/libcec/platform/adl/adl_structures.h Comment: The support/windows files are prebuilt Windows binaries shipped without corresponding source. . The adl_*.h files are headers from AMD's Display Library (ADL) SDK, vendored by upstream. The entire copyright notice they carry disclaims warranty but grants no permission to use, copy, modify or redistribute, and the terms of the AMD ADL SDK licence agreement under which upstream obtained them are not reproduced in the source, so they are not distributable. . AMD has since republished these same headers under the MIT license as the GPUOpen display-library SDK. https://github.com/GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/display-library/tree/master/include which have been placed in debian/src/libcec/platform/adl/adl_*.h and are used instead. Files: * Copyright: 2011-2015, Pulse-Eight Limited. License: GPL-2+ Comment: Alternatively, you can license this library under a commercial license, please contact Pulse-Eight Licensing for more information. . For more information contact: Pulse-Eight Licensing <license@pulse-eight.com> http://www.pulse-eight.com/ http://www.pulse-eight.net/ Files: debian/* Copyright: 2011, Andres Mejia <amejia@debian.org> License: GPL-2+ Files: debian/src/libcec/platform/adl/adl_*.h Copyright: 2016–2022 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc License: MIT Files: src/libcec/adapter/Exynos/* Copyright: 2014, Valentin Manea 2011-2015, Pulse-Eight Limited. License: GPL-2+ Files: src/libcec/adapter/AOCEC/* Copyright: 2016, Gerald Dachs 2014, Valentin Manea 2011-2015, Pulse-Eight Limited. License: GPL-2+ Files: src/libcec/adapter/IMX/* Copyright: 2013, Stephan Rafin 2011-2013, Pulse-Eight Limited. License: GPL-2+ Files: src/libcec/adapter/Linux/* Copyright: 2017-2019, Jonas Karlman 2016, Gerald Dachs 2014, Valentin Manea 2011-2015, Pulse-Eight Limited. License: GPL-2+ Files: src/EventGhost/egplugin_sources/PulseEight/* Copyright: 2005-2016, EventGhost Project <http://www.eventghost.org/> 2011-2015, Pulse-Eight Limited. License: GPL-2+ Files: src/libcec/platform/adl/adl-edid.cpp src/libcec/platform/adl/adl-edid.h Copyright: 2011-2015, Pulse-Eight Limited. License: GPL-2+ License: GPL-2+ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 dated June, 1991, or (at your option) any later version. . On Debian systems, the complete text of version 2 of the GNU General Public License can be found in '/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'. License: MIT Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: . The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. . THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Other Reviews of this Package
| Version | Hash | Allocated | Completed | Reviewer | Status | Details |
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| 8.1.6+dfsg-1 | 168953a2… | 2026-08-17 09:39 | 2026-08-17 10:18 | mechtilde | rejected | VIEW |