Re: To adopt or not to adopt: smstools
Hello Patrick and *,
Am 2006-11-17 17:02:28, schrieb Patrick Schönfeld:
> Hi there,
>
> i am a so-far happy long-time-user of debian and now would like to give
> something back to the debian project. Now i've seen a while ago that the
> package smstools is far from the upstream smstools (and has not been
> changed since a year, except a security issue by s.d.o), what is bad,
> because upstream has slightly changed and improved smstools (they
> perform better and contain less errors - i use them in a production
> environment much more successful since a while). Also the upstream
> author has changed, with a new branch 3.0 of smstools.
I am in creation of a GUI frontend which does not require GNOME/KDE
OH, I use only 'getsms' and 'putsms' since 'smsd' does not do what
I want.
Now my question.
If I use getsms from Sarge, or the backport from Sid, I get over 80%
of messages undecoded like:
----8<--------------------------------------------------------------
From:
Received: 06-10-08 13:13:41
Subject: Siemans_S40_17
Message format (1) is not supported. Cannote decode.
B1060B911262956215F70000FFA0C8309BFD062DC3F2743B8C9A86D9753A681996A7
DBE114E89A2E83CE65341D549E83C869396AF86EB7CB6E3A885E07D9C3A91F283946
83D8E9B2B80C22A6C76894B20CA29FC2E976390522D641E6329A3DA783DA6939A8EE
2683D26334E89E66B341C4F4180DAAB7C3F276D98DA2D641ED32A81D76C7EB655099
0E529741F6721D0FA29741E5B6581E9E97E5
----8<--------------------------------------------------------------
Does 'getsms" not handel this correctly?
I have created a BASH script which do the PDU-decode to get it in
readable form... (Was a Hell-Job)
Oh, the "B1" at the begginnig tell us, that this was a message send
FROM the CellPhone and it is NOT explained in the PDU specification.
> Now i asked the maintainer of this package, if he lost time on this
> project or something like that. He did not respond. But he seems to be
Mee too...
> active otherwise and i know he might be busy because of the upcoming
> release. But how to go on with this? I would happily package further
> versions of smstools if someone let me. I even have packaged a current
> version on-top of the original maintainers work. I've uploaded it to
> mentors.d.o but i'm unsure if i should RFS because it *has* a
> maintainer. Maybe it would be an alternative to add a new package smstools3?
I will be happy to test it tomorrow!
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
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