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.
The protocol has been around for years and tangoGPS
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
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.
It is not about what Eric Raymond says, it is about what best practice
is in the open source world. And this is not. And I maintain that it
Marcus Bauer wrote:
Anyway, I would be interested in the rationale of why the protocol is
bad apart from the fact that Eric is an uber-coder who wants me to use
his tangle-fangled lib. At least the success of TCP/IP and HTTP tells me
that protocols are a fantastic thing.
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