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de Dave KB3EFS On 7/26/19 2:10 PM, Iain Learmonth wrote: > Hi, > > I am a maintainer for the libax25 and ax25-apps packages, and these > packages are not in great shape. These are userspace packages that > compliment the AX.25 networking support in the Linux kernel. I would > like to propose that we do not ship these packages, or otherwise use the > kernel AX.25 support, in the next Debian release. > > Support for the AX.25 stack is currently not present on arm64 (#920651). > I am not sure if this is due to it being broken there or it simply > wasn't enabled. Regardless, it has been broken recently in ways that > seriously affect its usability. There are just not enough people looking > at it or taking care of it. > > The userspace packages also have long standing bugs (#605946) that have > not been fixed by the upstream. In the last 2 releases of Debian we have > shipped release candidate packages as no release has been made. > > The following packages would be affected and I propose would be removed: > > libax25-dev > ax25mail-utils > ax25-tools > ax25-apps > > The following packages would be affected and I propose should be built > without support for kernel AX.25: > > xastir (checked, it's fine) > uronode (checked, it's fine) > aprsdigi (did not check if possible yet) > fbb (did not check if possible yet) > > This is a change to something that's been around for a while, and it > affects more than just my packages, so I'm bringing this to the mailing > list for discussion. I have pretty much made up my mind that this is the > right thing to do but I will listen to compelling counter-arguments. > > Thanks, > Iain. > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir