Bug#1057276: pat: PACTOR mode is broken
On Sat, Dec 09, 2023 at 06:37:35PM +0100, DC7IA wrote:
> Hello Tony,
>
> that's less than ideal. Currently, as a user, I just notice that the
> software does not work. I do exactly what should work, but for some reason
> it does not. I cannot see that a feature was intentionally removed.
>
> And yes, there's definitely interest, as currently there is no other
> software for PACTOR that is available in the repos. So if that feature can
> be re-added in relatively simple way, that'd be great.
>
> The reason I was asking the author of pat to talk to some Debian folks and
> get it in the repo, two years ago, was because I thought it'd be great if we
> had a software for this. :)
Hi Joshua,
Yes, I agree that the disable functionality could be better documented.
For example, we could augment the patch to display a more helpful
message when pactor is used and also update the manpage.
But since it's not much more effort to enable pactor, I have started
down that path. Bug #1057882 [1] is the ITP bug for
golang-github-howeyc-crc16 and the packaging is in process. There was
already an ITP bug (#956547 [2]) for golang-github-harenber-ptc-go,
which I also have ready to upload once howeyc/crc16 is accepted into the
archive. Both of those packages will need to go through the NEW queue
before we can update pat, but they are fairly simple packages, so it
shouldn't take too long.
Thanks for bringing this to the list.
Cheers,
tony
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1057882
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=956547
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