Re: aprsc in Debian
On 15/09/14 20:03, Heikki Hannikainen wrote:
> aprsd contains a complete igate implementation, but it has some
> bugs. The most serious ones (non-ASCII byte mangling ones) have been
> patched in the debian version these days.
Both the Debian version and the newer upstream version of aprsd are
un-buildable on a modern Debian system, which is why we are talking
about removing it from Debian.
> aprx has better igate and digipeater functionality.
It sounds like a good replacement.
> aprx is a client, aprsc is a server, aprsd is both a client and
> server but it's server does not implement the things current servers
> are supposed to do. And it's got some bugs in the igate client
> functionality too.
Thanks for your input, I believe this has helped the Debian Ham Radio
maintainers work out the best course of action.
Colin
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