Package: gpsd Severity: normal Hello, I need some of the fixes that have been incorporated into upstream. The current version in unstable is over a year old. Is there any reason why gpsd is lagging so far behind upstream?
* Sat Oct 29 2011 Eric S. Raymond <e...@snark.thyrsus.com> - 3.3 Improvements to build and release-procedure documentation. Make sirf=no build work again. Main reason for this release is to make chrpath a mandatory build depedency and explain why in the build documentation. * Wed Oct 25 2011 Eric S. Raymond <e...@snark.thyrsus.com> - 3.2 In the build recipe, (1) set pkgconfig properly for 64-bit Fedora systems, (2) clean up various derived files including *.pyc on scons -c, (3) add an option to disable stripping of binaries (strip=no), (4) for embedded targets, add an option to disable building Python support (python=no), (5) make the help for gpsd_group and gpsd_user a little clearer, (6) add a force_global option to build gpsd to listen to all addresses (rather than just loopback). The packet sniffer now accepts NMEA packets with the ECDIS packet leader 'EC'. SBAS satellites are now properly use-flagged in SiRF and UBX skyviews. The -G option now works under IPv6. Cross-build is now officially supported and instructions included. gpsprof works again and does whole-cycle profiling. gpsd.php has Open Street Map support. The pp-on-cts option is replaced by a pps_pin option that lets you specify the pin; the default is still DCD. New supported device; the Jackson Labs Fury. The chrpath utility has become a build prerequisite. * Sun Aug 28 2011 Eric S. Raymond <e...@snark.thyrsus.com> - 3.1 The Irene release, rocking you like a hurricane and brought to you from the storm shelter in my basement. This is a snap release mainly to get some scons recipe cleanups out the door. Parallelized builds now work. Small but fatal problems with reconfigure=no, netfeed=no and sock_export=no builds have been fixed. Build recipe ported for Fedora, Darwin, FreeBSD and OpenBSD. libgps now brings -lm with it on systems with implicit linking. One old bug fixed (code was previously present but broken): Under Linux, gpsd will refrain from opening serial or USB devices that another process has open, avoiding potential problems with class 0xFF USB devices opened by other programs. One new bug fix: we now use an atof() implementation that ignores locale, avoiding problems where decimal point is a comma. One new feature: Change -N semantics so it only suppresses backgrounding; privileges are now dropped as in normal background operation. * Fri Aug 19 2011 Eric S. Raymond <e...@snark.thyrsus.com> - 3.0 POLL subobject name changes: fixes -> tpv, skyview -> sky. Fix a timestamp-clobbering bug in the C library revealed by an obscure car-nav device, the MyGuide 3100. The DEVICE 'activated' attribute becomes an ISO8601 string; the client libraries will still backward-compatibly read a float value. gps_unpack() is now a documented part of the library API. There is now a shared-memory export from the daemon that can be accessed through the C and C++ client libraries. xgps and cgps may now display the Maidenhead grid locator for current lat/lon. xgps displays GST noise statistics if they are available. Codebase now has an scons build recipe. Direct support for activation of gpsd from Mac OS/X systemd. gpsdecode can now filter reports by RTCM2, RTCM3, or AIS message type. NMEA HEHDT is implemented. Remote gpsd instances can now be used as data sources via a gpsd:// URL. There is a client for live-feeding GPSD data to Google Earth. The hotplug sequence no longer requires Python. * Mon Mar 21 2011 Eric S. Raymond <e...@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.96 Bumped maximum channel count to 32 to accommodate GPS+GLONASS devices. API version bumped to 5, redesign finished (changes are documented in the Client HOWTO). cgps now handles resize signals. Code can now link with uClibc for embedded use. Various bugs in the C++ binding have been fixed. gpxlogger can now daemonize and write to a specified log file. A gpsd client can now set any locale it likes, and JSON will still be parsed using the C locale matching the daemon's. Clients are no longer required to define a gpsd_report() hook. gpsd no longer emits probe strings to unidentified USB devices at startup. JSON timestamps in TPV and SKY are now ISO8601 rather than seconds since the Unix epoch; the library handles the older style backward-compatibly. GPGST sentences are now parsed for noise statistics when a device emits them. AIS and RTCM2 JSON dumps have device fields. JSON reports now include 50bps subframe data if the device allows access to it. gpsdecode can now dump NMEA GPS binary, and subframe data to JSON. The RTCM2 code now understands and analyzes RTCM2.3 messages 13, 14, and 31, and has been checked against another analyzer. 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