Re: Requesting sponsorship for the OpenDigitalRadio project

[Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>]

Re: Robin ALEXANDER
> I recently submitted 4 debian packages (odr-audioenc, odr-padenc, odr-
> dabmux and odr-dabmod) that implement the essential tools to setup a
> Digital Audio Broadcasting transmission chain. For  more details, you
> can visit https://www.opendigitalradio.org/mmbTools
> 
> I tagged these debian packages as "hamradio", although I reckon ODR is
> not strictly speaking amateur radio (but it is still radio!).  
> 
> Could you please tell me if you could accept and sponsor these
> packages? If not, could you give me some advices:
>  - What tool(s) (ex: reprepro) would you recommend to setup a private
> debian repository that would host these packages?
>  - How can I generate deban packages for other hardware platforms (ex:
> arm64, arm/v7)?
> 
> Thank you very much in advance for your support.

Hi Robin,

I think "hamradio" is fine since it's radio as you say. Everything
else would be more off. And we have welle.io as well in that section,
which is a DAB(+) receiver that isn't really "ham" radio either.

Do you still need sponsoring for any of the packages?

I'd just upload everything to Debian which makes the question of
private hosting obsolete :D. But reprepro would be the tool to use,
yes.

This would also answer the question of arm building. If you want to do
it outside of Debian, you'd need a machine to do that, or possibly try
cross-building (or qemu).

Christoph DF7CB