This is a forwarded version of an email sent to the Xastir mailing list. I am forwarding to you because you followed up to a different message on that list.
To answer your direct question, "Since we are building from a snapshot - i.e., a version somewhere between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5, is there a preference for which we use for configure?" This is mistaken. You are in fact using 2.1.5, which means "development version between 2.1.4. and whatever our next release will be called." Since this version number is used to construct the TOCALL, the version number in AC_INIT should just be left at 2.1.5. 2.1.5 will never be "released", and the presence of APX215 in the TOCALL is supposed to say "this user is using a bleeding-edge version pulled from git". Our next release will get a version number bump. The Xastir build system tries to construct a useful Version string to display in the Help->About and also to print when Xastir is invoked with "-V", but this trick only works if the code is being built from a git clone (it sticks the current SHA-1 into the version displayed in these places, but does NOT screw up the TOCALL). That won't work if you're building the Debian package out of a tarball (the trick involves looking for a .git directory, and if found, invoking a git log command to get the current SHA-1). ----- Forwarded message from Tom Russo <ru...@bogodyn.org> ----- Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 10:26:41 -0700 From: Tom Russo <ru...@bogodyn.org> To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xas...@xastir.org> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Fwd: Bug#952116: xastir: Impossible to transmit due to malformed TOCALL Xastir's versions are goofy. The history of this is ancient, and there has been no reason to ungoof it. Even numbers are releases, odd numbers are working development versions, and are generally not updated for every commit --- Xastir 2.1.5 just means "development branch after stable 2.1.4". The TOCALL for the current development version of Xastir should be APX215, and there should be no need for finer granularity to show which commit on every transmit. The ambiguity of "which commit of the dev branch am I using?" is resolved using the Help->About box. This can only matter to the user him/her self, and need not be transmitted in every packet. A TOCALL of APX215 should be enough for all interested parties on the receive end. If there is a need for a stable release so that distros can have a stable version, we should push one out. There is an open project on github for our next release with a number of required fixes before we do it. There was a flurry of activity on some of those issues a while back, but between people being injured, having other projects, and what not, nothing's been done for quite a while. If there is a real need for a stable release, we could probably use a little help. The open issues that we expected to have fixed for the next release (nominally dubbed Xastir 2.2.0) can be seen at: https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/projects/2 Some might need punting. On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 08:56:54AM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <xas...@trinnet.net> flavor, containing: > > Hello Dave, > > The scenario here seems to be if you're running an intermediate release > Xastir and not an official tagged release. > > Dave, yes, I see you on APRS-IS : https://aprs.fi/info/a/KB3EFS and it shows > you're running v2.15 (APX215) per the "Last Path" line: > > KB3EFS>*APX215* via TCPIP*,qAC,T2ONTARIO > > > The question here is if you're running a version of Xastir that's between > v2.15 and v2.16, what should Xastir report as it's version to APRS-IS? It's > not clear if it's illegal but maybe this would be legal: > > APX21G > > --David > KI6ZHD > > > > > On 02/23/2020 08:43 AM, David A Aitcheson wrote: > > I did & was checking validity before making noise... > > > > Given that I only am able to be on APRS via an Internet connection > > (read: no radio use allowed)... > > > > Given that I only build from source (read: I don't use a package from a > > repository)... > > > > I think that it is not effecting me... > > > > David KI6ZHD - can you see me ( "KB3EFS" ) on the map in NY State? > > > > 73 > > Dave > > KB3EFS > > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > xas...@lists.xastir.org > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir -- Tom Russo KM5VY Tijeras, NM echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m] _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list xas...@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Tom Russo KM5VY Tijeras, NM echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m]