Thomas et al;
On Wed, 2019-03-13 at 16:44 +0100, Thomas Osterried wrote: <$0.02>
Again about AX25 packages AX.25 Apps, AX.25 Tools, AX.25 Library: It is always the best choise to recompile and use VE7FET packages (thanks to Lee VE7FET for bugs fixed and reorganizing) instead of official repository (APT) ?
It's always the best choice to use the official repo. See http://www.linux-ax25.org/wiki/GIT http://www.linux-ax25.org/wiki/Compilation
Debian has dropped some of the packages from your group because when it does come to patches, politics wins over technical issues with the maintainer upstreams and deploying known broken packages does NO ONE any good, nor does it help the growth of the hobby using ax.25/netrom/rose.
It's a pity that there is no way to have a single good source ...
It would always have been a good idea to send patches upstream.
This is not true. I know those who's submitted patches and they get rejected 100% with non-technical reasonings such as not knowing rose or it wasn't developed within the maintainer group. This is not a secret, many know this which is why there's multiple distributions of the exact same packages out there.
Discussions on this are quite old as I'm sure David Ranch will agree. Until the maintainers of the original packages begin to accept patches sent, they could make .diff files themselves from the other releases, test, and incorporate them for better improved "original" release.
Ever since kernel 4.2, the whole ax.25 suite is of no value whatsoever and now people are going round robin blaming others rather than fixing things. Marius made a patch as well, which appears to be working on his site but I do not know if he submitted it to the maintainers. With the history of rejections of patches I wouldn't be surprised if he hasn't. </$0.02>