gpsd 2.90 will be uploaded to unstable soon
Hi,
you're maintaining a package which links to libgps18, so please note that an
upload of gpsd and libgps19 to unstable will happen soon - as soon as upstream
released the new version. What you should know is:
- gpsd uses a new shiny, json-based protocol, but is still supposed to work well
with the old one
- if your program is using libgps, it should just keep working fine with the new
one, although the library will use the new protocol to talk with gpsd behind the
scenes. Nothing to worry about.
- if you program does messy thing, like using parts of the old protocol which
were deprecated since a long time - you may be in trouble, or not.
- if you program links libgps, but doesn't use the library's functions at all
(don't ask, we had at least one of them in the archive) *TALK TO UPSTREAM AND
GET THE MESS FIXED*.
In any case please test if you package build fine with the new libgps, which
just arrived in experimental, based on a svn snapshot from last night.
Thanks,
Bernd
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