Re: Getting new libax25 ready

[Bruce Walker <bruce@quidnet.com>]

Hello, everybody.

Since I just adopted the ax25 packages, I thought I would follow through 
on the plan which Patrick had written last month.  I put new packages of 
libax25 0.0.11 and new ax25-tools and ax25-apps in 
people.debian.org/~w1bw.  I have not had a chance to test the operation 
of these myself yet, just the building/installation (nor did I make any 
changes to ax25-{apps,tools} other than rebuild against the new 
libax25-dev). 

I'll try to at least use these a little in the next day or two at home 
before uploading, or if you prefer, I can just throw them into unstable 
right away.  Feel free to test in the meantime.

--bruce, W1BW

> On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Patrick Ouellette wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Just wanted to let everyone know I'm getting ready to 
> > upload the new libax25 package to my space on people.debian.org
> > ( http://people.debian.org/~pouelle ).  Upstream has added
> > changes to handle non-blocking I/O that claims to break
> > just about everything.  I'll be recompiling the ax25apps
> > and ax25tools against the new libax25 too.
> >    
>
> Only programs using libax25io will break, or actually they will go back to 
> pre-0.0.10 behaviour.
>
> Asking on linux-hams we concluded that the only programs using libax25io 
> are LinuxNode and it's derivatives (FlexNode, AWZnode). For LinuxNode a 
> fixed package already exists (version 0.3.1).
>
> Craig said that the libax25io change was the only change in 0.0.11 so I 
> wouldn't expect any problems. Of course it doesnät hurt to be careful...
>
>