From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hamish Moffatt Subject: Re: ham radio RPMs for SUSE [was: Re: AX-25 software that works on Fedora Core 4?] Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 09:22:30 +1000 Message-ID: <20051023232230.GA19902@cloud.net.au> References: <001701c5a4ef$996db510$a4011fac@kb2ear1> <200508210844.39309.n7bfs@qwest.net> <200508211937.31232.robert@steinhaeusser.com> <200510230911.45303.n7bfs@qwest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200510230911.45303.n7bfs@qwest.net> Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Robert =?iso-8859-1?Q?Steinh=E4u=DFer?= , linux-hams@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 09:11:45AM -0700, Douglas Cole wrote: > On Sunday 21 August 2005 10:37, Robert Steinh=E4u=DFer wrote: > > The main reason for no longer including ham radio programs in the > > distribution is that many of these programs aren't under active dev= elopment > > and it is getting more and more difficult to let them work under a = new > > distribution. Package maintanance is simply costing too much effort= , and > > many programs only compile on the PC architecture and thus require = even > > more effort from Joerg as packager and from the autobuild team. > > Additionally, the potential costs for quick and effective handling = of > > security problems are quite high. [..] > I kind of figured this was the reason they were dropped, it still wou= ld be=20 > nice to go back to the "good old days" where I got 7 disc's when I pa= yed for=20 > SuSE, I would actually prefer that, and still plan on paying them, as= I don't=20 > like to freeload for such a solid distro'.=20 Debian GNU/Linux still includes official hamradio packages and they are supported on every architecture. There are quite a few hams amongst the developers and between us we keep the hamradio packages in good shape. We haven't noticed many cross-platform issues with these packages actually. Hamish --=20 Hamish Moffatt VK3SB - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html