[Pkg-running-devel] forerunner 310xt support for garmin-ant-downlaoder

Christian PERRIER bubulle at debian.org
Tue Oct 8 05:14:53 UTC 2013


Quoting Ralf Treinen (treinen at free.fr):

> garmin-ant-downloader. Your write that the g-a-d project is currently 
> unmmaintained - did you try to contact the g-a-d maintainers to discuss
> with them? I think you should first make an attempt to contact them and
> give them a chance to react. If you don't get any answer from them in a 

Yes, he did..:-)

g-a-d is basically something that I assembled in the hope of having
something that works with my 405 watch in Debian.

The current course is the original work by "Paul", which got untouched
for years, then got fixes by Klaus Ethgen, who had the same purpose
than me(get his 405 working)...and that's it.

So, I can tell that I'm mostly the "maintainer" of this and I can
confirm that I don't really maintain it.

And Kristof did contact me so he did indeed contact the g-a-d "maintainers"..:-)

> > After all this said, I have the following questions to you:
> > - Do you agree with my plans to extend g-a-d with ANT-FS functionality, and
> > thus download capability from more GPS devices.
> 
> You should first try to get this settled upstream with the g-a-d maintainers.
> There are two possible outcomes : either you join forces with the g-a-d
> maintainers and create a common tool, or you do your own fork of g-a-d.
> Once this is decided (and up to that point debian has no say in this)
> we can work on the debian packaging. In case the old g-a-d maintainers
> are not interested in a cooperation we might just switch to your fork.

I wouldn't call that a fork because there is nothing alive to be
forked..:-). Let's call this a resurrection.

> > - What is the preferred way to provide patches for g-a-d? (send patch to
> > mailing list or provide branch for merging)
> 
> If you want to help with packaging then the best would be to create an
> account on alioth, ask for inclusion in the pkg-running group,
> and provide patches as branch in the git.


Kristof main point was that he wanted to focus on the software but
have someone from our team to deal with Debian packaging...which I'd
be happy to do if I knew that I'm not proposing something that I will
not find time to do.


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