Marcus Bauer wrote: > Package: gpsd > Version: 2.92-1 > Severity: important > > The version 2.92 of gpsd breaks the API / protocol. Moreover the > protocol change has not been announced on the gpsd announce mailing > list and should only happen with a bump of the major version.
It was announced that these changes will happen on the way to 3.0 early enough. All 2.9X releases prepare 3.0, that is what the announcement mail says. Also - as a developer - I think you should read the -dev list instead... > The protocol has been around for years and tangoGPS is certainly one of > the major apps using it. It is a hassle for users to run into > incompatibilities here. The gpsd manpage says since a year: Clients communicate with the dameon via textual request and responses. It is a bad idea for applications to speak the protocol directly: rather, they should use the libgps client library and take appropriate care to conditionalize their code on the major and minor protocol version symbols. It was a bad idea not to use libgps even before that was mentioned there. I know you're whining constantly that the library was buggy, but I fail to find a single bug report from you. > See bug #573848 for a bug filed against tangoGPS. > > Suggested solution: revert to 2.90 and make a new version 3.0 with the > new API. No chance. Too many changes, too many bugfixes. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
