Bug#647451: gpsd: Please upgrade to latest upstream (3.4)

Package: gpsd
Severity: normal

Hello,
I need some of the fixes that have been incorporated into upstream.
The current version in unstable is over a year old. Is there any
reason why gpsd is lagging so far behind upstream?


* Sat Oct 29 2011 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 3.3
Improvements to build and release-procedure documentation. Make
sirf=no build work again. Main reason for this release is to make
chrpath a mandatory build depedency and explain why in the build
documentation.

* Wed Oct 25 2011 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 3.2
In the build recipe, (1) set pkgconfig properly for 64-bit Fedora
systems, (2) clean up various derived files including *.pyc on scons
-c, (3) add an option to disable stripping of binaries (strip=no),
(4) for embedded targets, add an option to disable building Python
support (python=no), (5) make the help for gpsd_group and gpsd_user
a little clearer, (6) add a force_global option to build gpsd to
listen to all addresses (rather than just loopback). The packet
sniffer now accepts NMEA packets with the ECDIS packet leader 'EC'.
SBAS satellites are now properly use-flagged in SiRF and UBX
skyviews. The -G option now works under IPv6. Cross-build is now
officially supported and instructions included. gpsprof works again
and does whole-cycle profiling. gpsd.php has Open Street Map
support. The pp-on-cts option is replaced by a pps_pin option that
lets you specify the pin; the default is still DCD. New supported
device; the Jackson Labs Fury. The chrpath utility has become a
build prerequisite.

* Sun Aug 28 2011 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 3.1
The Irene release, rocking you like a hurricane and brought to you
from the storm shelter in my basement. This is a snap release mainly
to get some scons recipe cleanups out the door. Parallelized builds
now work. Small but fatal problems with reconfigure=no, netfeed=no
and sock_export=no builds have been fixed. Build recipe ported for
Fedora, Darwin, FreeBSD and OpenBSD. libgps now brings -lm with it
on systems with implicit linking. One old bug fixed (code was
previously present but broken): Under Linux, gpsd will refrain from
opening serial or USB devices that another process has open,
avoiding potential problems with class 0xFF USB devices opened by
other programs. One new bug fix: we now use an atof()
implementation that ignores locale, avoiding problems where decimal
point is a comma. One new feature: Change -N semantics so it only
suppresses backgrounding; privileges are now dropped as in normal
background operation.

* Fri Aug 19 2011 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 3.0
POLL subobject name changes: fixes -> tpv, skyview -> sky.
Fix a timestamp-clobbering bug in the C library revealed by an
obscure car-nav device, the MyGuide 3100. The DEVICE 'activated'
attribute becomes an ISO8601 string; the client libraries will
still backward-compatibly read a float value. gps_unpack() is
now a documented part of the library API. There is now a
shared-memory export from the daemon that can be accessed through
the C and C++ client libraries. xgps and cgps may now display
the Maidenhead grid locator for current lat/lon. xgps displays
GST noise statistics if they are available. Codebase now has
an scons build recipe. Direct support for activation of gpsd from
Mac OS/X systemd. gpsdecode can now filter reports by RTCM2, RTCM3,
or AIS message type. NMEA HEHDT is implemented. Remote gpsd instances
can now be used as data sources via a gpsd:// URL. There is a client
for live-feeding GPSD data to Google Earth. The hotplug sequence no
longer requires Python.

* Mon Mar 21 2011 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.96
Bumped maximum channel count to 32 to accommodate GPS+GLONASS devices.
API version bumped to 5, redesign finished (changes are documented
in the Client HOWTO). cgps now handles resize signals. Code can now
link with uClibc for embedded use. Various bugs in the C++ binding
have been fixed. gpxlogger can now daemonize and write to a specified
log file. A gpsd client can now set any locale it likes, and JSON
will still be parsed using the C locale matching the daemon's. Clients
are no longer required to define a gpsd_report() hook. gpsd no longer
emits probe strings to unidentified USB devices at startup.
JSON timestamps in TPV and SKY are now ISO8601 rather than seconds since
the Unix epoch; the library handles the older style backward-compatibly.
GPGST sentences are now parsed for noise statistics when a device emits them.
AIS and RTCM2 JSON dumps have device fields. JSON reports now include 50bps
subframe data if the device allows access to it. gpsdecode can now dump NMEA
GPS binary, and subframe data to JSON. The RTCM2 code now understands and
analyzes RTCM2.3 messages 13, 14, and 31, and has been checked against another
analyzer. The ancient Sager dump format for RTCM2 is abolished in favor of
a JSON profile.


Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-rc7+ (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash



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