Morning Colin! There's a number of us who package radio things hanging out in #debian-hams on oftc, and at https://lists.debian.org/debian-hams/.
I enjoy packet and APRS - you're welcome to ask any questions/queries about Debian specific weidness, or ask on the list alternatively! Cheers, -- Hibby Debian Developer Packet Radioist MM0RFN On Mon, 9 Sep 2024, at 4:08 AM, Colin Cogle wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Colin Cogle <co...@colincogle.name> > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org > > * Package name : aprs-weather-submit > Version : 1.7.1 > Upstream Contact: Colin Cogle <co...@colincogle.name> > * URL : https://github.com/rhymeswithmogul/aprs-weather-submit > * License : Affero GPL v3 (or later) -- see note below > Programming Lang: C (C99 with GNU extensions) > Description : Manually submit weather station data to the APRS-IS > network. > > I'm the creator of aprs-weather-submit and I'd like to propose it be a > part of the Debian repositories. Amateur radio operators use my app > (particularly on the Raspberry Pi platform) to submit their own weather > and location information via APRS-IS and broadcast it to the world. I > created this app because I couldn't find anything out there quite like it. > > I have been maintaining this app for several years, and I have been > writing free and open-source software in C (and other languages) for > even longer. There are no dependencies beyond the standard C library. > > I currently release this as a Launchpad PPA, but I would like to move it > into the repositories for the benefit and convenience of my users. I > plan to maintain this myself, but I've never contributed to Debian > before, so I would appreciate having a mentor to help me get started. > > Note that this app can be compiled for other operating systems besides > Linux. In the source tarball is a library called "freegetopt" that is > licensed under the MIT License. However, this is a dependency only used > to build for DOS, and it is never linked, compiled, or included in any > Linux builds (as Linux has native getopt_long() support). The Debian > binaries would only contain my AGPLv3+-licensed code. > > > Attachments: > * OpenPGP_0xB9D51810CEFEEDFC.asc > * OpenPGP_signature.asc
