[Xastir] Proposed removal of kernel AX.25 support

[David A Aitcheson]

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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.
>