Re: Debian Hamlib v4.3 package is out of date - Hamlib has been upgraded to 4.4 since 12/02/21

[Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>]

Re: To David Ranch
> Re: David Ranch
> > Hello Christoph,
> > 
> > I noticed today that the Debian hamlib package in both Testing (bookwork)
> > and SID are on v4.3.0 but Hamlib 4.4.0 has been out since 12/02/21.  Would
> > it be possible to get that updated?   While I have your attention, I did try
> > to compile and package v4.4 using the v4.3 debian package files from
> > http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/h/hamlib/hamlib_4.3.1-1.debian.tar.xz
> > on Ubuntu 20.04 but when I run "debuild --no-tgz-check -i -b -us -uc", I get
> > the following errors.  Any thoughts on a fix?
> 
> > dpkg-gensymbols: warning: some new symbols appeared in the symbols file: see
> > diff output below
> > dpkg-gensymbols: error: some symbols or patterns disappeared in the symbols
> > file: see diff output below
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> you'd have to inspect the diff, most importantly the symbols that went
> missing, and decided if that's ok, or if that needs a SONAME bump.

I just gave hamlib 4.4 a try, and it just doesn't work. It cannot talk
to my IC7610:

$ rigctl -r /dev/ttyUSB7610 -m 3078 -s 115200
rig_open: error = Invalid parameter
icom_rig_open: rig error getting frequency retry=0, err=Invalid parameter
icom_get_usb_echo_off: USB echo off detected
icom.c(771):icom_get_usb_echo_off return(1)
icom.c(771):icom_get_usb_echo_off return(1)icom.c(995):icom_rig_open return(1)
rig.c(1031):rig_open return(1) /dev/ttyUSB7610 Success

There are over 600 commits on the master branch since the 4.4 tag, I
don't think trying to cherry-pick that fix makes sense, and we should
just wait for 4.5.

(I tried building 4.5 from git, but it dies with some include problem
that I don't want to debug now.)

Christoph