Yo Stuart! On Wed, 05 Nov 2025 23:14:24 -0500 Stuart Blake Tener <[email protected]> wrote:
I'll leave the crhonyd qustion to those here that actually
know and use chronyd.
> I contacted the Debian maintainer for gpsd and asked why the latest
> version of Debian Trixie had a three year old version of gpsd
> therein. He indicated that the Debian Trixie code freeze occurred
> before the latest drop of gpsd and thus it was not inclusive thereto.
> He did say he would get the current version into unstable, testing,
> and then perhaps into Trixie but there was an issue. Apparently gpsd
> used libraries more current than those inclusive to Debian Trixie and
> that was part of the problem. If anyone is interested, I can send you
> the response and explanation this man sent me along with his email
> address if anyone has questions for him. I was told that the best
> thing to do was either switch to unstable or testing (I loath the
> idea of that) or just use the version they have currently.
gpsd tries very hard to not require recent versions of its libraries.
So I do not buy that excude. It may be instrad that some other program
is picky about the gpsd version.
RGDS
GARY
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