This is a squash of the following cherry-picked commits:
40a29bf05540c7e95210893a804c9512037b3f29193c3913b6430ab5f9b30c6d461cc986396c6a49
Short summary:
- version is bumped to 1.7.0
- Makefile and patches are updated and cleaned
- adds myself as maintainer
- improves the cross-compile setup (via configure variables, patches &
sed scripts)
For more details please check the individual commits provided above.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Kemper <sebastian_ml@gmx.net>