Bug#1057276: pat: PACTOR mode is broken

[tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>]

On Sat, Dec 02, 2023 at 03:53:58PM +0100, Joshua Hoffmann | DC7IA wrote:
> Package: pat
> Version: 0.15.0-1+b3
> Severity: important
> X-Debbugs-Cc: martin.h.pedersen@gmail.com, deb@dc7ia.eu
> 
> Dear Debian Hamradio Maintainers,
> 
> connecting to a station using PACTOR is broken. This bug is not present when
> using upstream packages.

Hello Joshua,

This is expected for the current packaging, as documented in this patch:

  https://salsa.debian.org/debian-hamradio-team/pat/-/blob/debian/sid/debian/patches/01_remove_ptc-go.patch

I'm not the author of the patch, so my assessment may be incorrect.
However, at first glance the only reverse dependency missing from Debian
needed to package ptc-go is github.com/howeyc/crc16, which doesn't look
too difficult to package.

So it's doable if there is interest.

Cheers,
tony KG7IEL