Re: ham radio RPMs for SUSE [was: Re: AX-25 software that works on Fedora Core 4?]

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@cloud.net.au>]

On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 09:11:45AM -0700, Douglas Cole wrote:
> On Sunday 21 August 2005 10:37, Robert Steinhäußer wrote:
> > The main reason for no longer including ham radio programs in the
> > distribution is that many of these programs aren't under active development
> > 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 would be 
> nice to go back to the "good old days" where I got 7 disc's when I payed for 
> SuSE, I would actually prefer that, and still plan on paying them, as I don't 
> like to freeload for such a solid distro'. 

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
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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