Good news everyone, Wammu has just entered Debian testing:
Subject: wammu 0.13-1 MIGRATED to testing
From: Debian testing watch <noreply@henning.makholm.net>
To: wammu@packages.debian.org
Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 15:08:41 -0600
FYI: The status of the wammu source package
in Debian's testing distribution has changed.
Previous version: (not in testing)
Current version: 0.13-1
It's nice to see reports that some large SMS services run on Gammu. I know there are more, but mostly such information is hidden and nobody except people who wrote that know about used software.
Make such reports more often, it makes people happy. Usually mailing list is just full of complains that something is not working and few good words can't make anything bad :-).
I told this for many times before, so I just repeat: Such project needs version control system. No matter which one, but having at least CVS would make things lot of better than now. However Marcin seems unfortunately not to be interested in such "innovation". So I will still use my fixes branch, some people will want to use snapshots from that and we will sync with Marcin by sending patches and randomly forgetting about some parts (good luck that bazaar won't forget).
Version 1.06.00 finally got there, now we just need to wait till cron jobs do their work and package page will contain link to correct gammu home page and not the link farm living currently on gammu.net.
Most of users noticed that there is not much progress in Wammu development. This is mostly caused by problems which wxPython already caused me and drops my motivatio to create something new using it to zero. However I want Wammu to have future, so it looks obvious, that it has to leave wxPython.
For now I'm decided to go either with PyGTK or using some high level framework as Kiwi. The latter gives advantage of better abstraction, but pure PyGTK could attract more developers. I'm not yet decided about this choice and I'm creating proposal for highly modular core, which should allow (somewhat, at least for beginning) idependent plugins to handle different data in phone (and later maybe even different backends).
If you would like to join me in developing wammu-ng (the name will probably change), you're welcome to drop me a mail on michal@cihar.com.
It's nice to see how more and more people install Gammu since it has been included in Debian. Thanks to popcon I can see graph how it's popularity grows to sky :-).
Lets see whether Wammu will follow.
Jak si tak čtu zprávičku o chybě v xkách a koukám na patch, který ji opravuje , tak se nemůžu ubránit pocitu, že tu samou chybu jsem dnes už někde viděl.
Po chvíli uvažování mi to docvakne a vzpomenu si na dnešní commit do python-gammu . Teď mi nezvbývá než souhlasit s těmi co tvrdí, že toto vznikne hrozně snadno :-).
Finally it went through long NEW queue and it has been accepted!
Subject: wammu_0.13-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED From: Debian Installer <installer@ftp-master.debian.org> To: Michal Čihař <michal@cihar.com> Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 08:49:56 -0700 Accepted: wammu_0.13-1.diff.gz to pool/main/w/wammu/wammu_0.13-1.diff.gz wammu_0.13-1.dsc to pool/main/w/wammu/wammu_0.13-1.dsc wammu_0.13-1_all.deb to pool/main/w/wammu/wammu_0.13-1_all.deb wammu_0.13.orig.tar.gz to pool/main/w/wammu/wammu_0.13.orig.tar.gz Announcing to debian-devel-changes@lists.debian.org Closing bugs: 326710 Thank you for your contribution to Debian.
As result of reorganisation, my Debian repository structure has been changed.
Correct sources.list lines are now following:
deb http://debian.cihar.com/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://debian.cihar.com/ unstable main contrib non-free
Please also note that Gammu is already in Debian unstable and testing, so you can use version from there. I usually use this repository as place where my sponsor downloads source packages, so new version appear here sooner than in Debian archive (this is especially true when packages needs to go through NEW queue).
This repository contains all packages for i386 and amd64 architectures.
You can browse their list on debian.cihar.com.
My Arch (or Bazaar) repositories are moving to arch.cihar.com, if you use different location to access them, please change the URL as old location will vanish soon.