re-RFS: obdgpslogger [ITP #580176]

[Gary Briggs <chunky@icculus.org>]

Having resolved all of the issues that Niels found [thanks again for
your time], I've re-uploaded to the mentors site and am again seeking
a sponsor.

Package name : obdgpslogger
Upstream author : Gary Briggs <chunky@icculus.org> [me]
URL : http://icculus.org/obdgpslogger
License : GPLv2+

The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/o/obdgpslogger
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free
- dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/o/obdgpslogger/obdgpslogger_0.15-1.dsc

The package appears lintian clean with -IE --pedantic:
~/src/obdgpslogger$ lintian --version
Lintian v2.4.3
~/src/obdgpslogger$ lintian -IE --pedantic \
	obdgpslogger_0.15-1_amd64.deb obdgpslogger_0.15-1.dsc
~/src/obdgpslogger$ 

I would greatly appreciate it if a mentor could take a look at this
package with the goal of uploading it.

Thank-you very much,
Gary

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 03:51:49PM -0400, Gary Briggs wrote:
> The only remaining file is a simple shell script that's provided
> only as an example in doc/ in the source package. Do I need to
> explicitly mention it anywhere? It's not distributed in the final
> package. We're in the realm of this GPL FAQ here:
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhatIfWorkIsShort
> 
> I'll upload a new package once I know what to do about that.

On the advice of #debian-mentors, I simply threw another all-permissive
statement at the top and added it to debian/copyright appropriately.

> Understandable. The only part that communicates with the hardware is
> obdgpslogger itself. All the other binaries are utilities associated
> with the logfiles created [or the sim].
> 
> To try obdgpslogger attached to the sim, you can do it in one step
> ["obdsim -o"], or multiple steps:
> 1) Run "obdsim" without parameters
> 2) Read the "SimPort name"; on *nix this is a pty.
> 3) Run "obdgpslogger -t -s <simport name>"
> The "-t" flag is "spam stdout"; you'll know if stuff's working because
> you see some numbers appear. The default logfile name is "obdgpslogger.db"
> 
> Once you see it working, you can use obd2csv to create a csv file
> from the logfile just created:
> obd2csv -d obdgpslogger.db -o obdgpslogger.csv

Thanks,
Gary (-;