Quoting David A Aitcheson <david.aitcheson@gmail.com>:
Did you try the "Chirp-Daily" package? It is almost DAILY in its updates and working FB for me on Ubuntu 12.04-LTS.
Ubuntu is *not* Debian.
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?
He didn't say he was forking it. What he said was that he has packaged a newer version for Debian. Admittedly that is probably duplicated work in light of the Ubuntu package.
Colin G8TMV