[Xastir] Proposed removal of kernel AX.25 support

[Lee D Bengston]

Not long ago I finally made the switch to DireWolf from an old Kantronics
TNC.  With AGW and KISS over TCP interfaces, TNC sharing among applications
is easier then ever with no dependency on Linux AX25 networking.

Lee K5DAT


On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 3:13 PM David A Aitcheson <david.aitcheson at gmail.com>
wrote:

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>
> de Dave KB3EFS
>
>
> 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.
> >
>
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