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Colin, This software is more suited for older hardware and was written to take advantage of home brewed modems such as those found at http://www.qsl.net/sv1bsx/Baycom/baycom.html and http://www.radanpro.com/Radan2400/PC/BAYCOM PACKET.htm If anyone is using them I would hazard a guess that they are running an older OS and not the latest bleeding edge OS incarnation. Plus the software is available on several support sites. _IF_ I were to run it I would be running it on a DOS box anyways as it is best suited for remote termiinal application over a slow ascii data connection via packet radio. BTW you can get the hardware commercially at http://www.tigertronics.com/baymodem.htm 73 Dave KB3EFS On 05/11/2015 12:25 PM, Colin Tuckley
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These two packages are very old and apparently have very few users, they also have FTBFS with GCC-5 bugs filed against them (#777796 and #777795). The upstream site has completely gone (at least I haven't been able to find one). I have spent several hours today trying to get baycomepp to build with modern packaging and have now given up. The package does build with it's original packaging although with a fair number of Lintian warnings. I then started looking at the actual FTBFS problem, this is very messy and time consuming. We also have the problem that testing the package without the actual hardware is pretty much impossible. So, unless someone who is interested in these packages (and has the hardware) comes forward and offers to work on them and fix the bugs in a reasonable time-scale I think we have no choice but to remove them from Debian as un-maintainable. Colin |