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Okay Kamal, I'll wait and see what comes out, then run a cautious
trial on a sample set of the radios I work with on a daily basis. On 04/05/2013 12:23 PM, Kamal Mostafa wrote: > On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 23:04 -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: >> Greetings. >> >> I recently got a new rig, a small HT, and needed chirp to program it. >> Unfortunately the version of the packge in Debian now doesn't work for the >> rig, and I found the year-old wishlist bug #672318 requesting a new version. >> I've prepared a new 0.3.0-0.1 package (currently as an NMU) and made several >> other changes -- the debian/rules file now uses dh. >> >> If someone has time to take a peek and review this source package, I'd >> appreciate it. ;-) >> >> http://debian-packages.coredump.us/debian/pool/main/c/chirp/ > > Thanks Chris, your work is much appreciated. I'll see that this gets > reviewed by myself and/or Steve Conklin (the chirp Debian maintainers) > as soon as possible. > >> Thanks. >> >> -- Chris, KB2IQN > > > On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 02:46 -0400, David A Aitcheson wrote: >> [...] >> PS - A fork similar to this is what caused all the problems with "NODE". >> Did we not learn anything from that drawn out over more than a decade mess? > > As has been pointed out, Chris's proposed package is not any sort of a > fork -- nor is it duplicated work with respect to the chirp-daily PPA. > Chris's package is aimed at bringing a newer "official" release of chirp > to Debian (where it will then make its way into stock Ubuntu and many > other distros), whereas the purpose of the Ubuntu PPA is to deliver the > bleeding-edge version to more advanced Ubuntu users. Chris's package is > (potentially) suitable for inclusion in Debian and its derivatives, but > the daily build package is not. > > 73 de KA6MAL > > -Kamal -- David A Aitcheson david.aitcheson@gmail.com Go Green! Print this email only when necessary. |