Bug#689814: unblock: gnuradio/3.6.1-1
>>>>> Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi@dogguy.org> writes:
> It is a pity that the package didn't migrate due to a transient build
> failure, but it is not an argument to unblock it. Besides, the diff
> between testing's and sid's gnuradio looks rather large and sid's
> version doesn't (according to the BTS) fix any serious issues.
The gnuradio community has been trained to avoid Debian packages, so
they are not using them or posting bugs to the BTS. That said, I am
trying to change that.
> Do you have in mind some very important fixes that you'd like to see
> in Wheezy? If not, we'd prefer to keep 3.6.1-1 out of Wheezy.
Upstream changelogs:
http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/ChangeLogV3_6_1
http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/ChangeLogV3_6_0
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The one that will lead to the most user comments if Debian doesn't
have it: "Allow left click in FFT display to set a GRC variable"
While it's a fairly minor feature, it allows "click to tune" to
work. For software defined radio applications this is a compelling
human-machine interface feature. The FFT display shows a band
of radio frequencies, and the user just clicks on an interesting
peak in the visualization of the FFT display and the radio receiving
parts of the application tune to demodulate it - which often leads
to hearing a human voice. See - Click - Listen. Also avoids having
less-intuitive coarse frquency tuning slider bars in the GUI.
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The polyphase filterbank support is quite likely to be useful,
http://www.trondeau.com/blog/2012/2/24/some-really-cool-dsp.html
and the gr-digital and gr-filter blocks are an important addition.
To be sure, gnuradio developers will charge ahead with new ABIs and
APIs, and I intend to package up newer versions for wheezey-backports
in the future.
But the person who discovers gnuradio by finding it in Wheezy will
be better served by starting to work with the 3.6.1 version rather
than the 3.5.3.2 version.
I've been using Wheezy and gnuradio 3.6 to follow along the fun
people were having with the DVB-T dongles:
http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr
Since I didn't have to wait for 3.6.1 on my Wheezy boxes, I've
been using it - and my Debian packages have worked well with
scripts and extensions written by others.
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Upstream gnuradio developers would like to see gnuradio 3.6.1
in Wheezy. At the end of September I attended the conference
http://www.trondeau.com/gnu-radio-conference-2012/
The increased use of VOLK makes gnuradio 3.6.1 run faster.
Even with the perspective of a few months of time passing,
the gnuradio 3.6.1-1 package uploaded in June still looks
like a good candidate for inclusion in Wheezy.
-Maitland
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