[FOSS-GPS] Questions about foxtrotgps

[James Hiebert]

> Hmm, tangogps is not in debian anymore.

Well, it still shows up in my apt.  Is this an error?

# apt-cache showpkg tangogps
Package: tangogps
Versions: 
0.99.4+debian3-1
(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp2.de.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-armel_Packages)
(/var/lib/dpkg/status)
 Description Language: 
                 File:
/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp2.de.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-armel_Packages
                  MD5: 9171a6378bda90539ab34439b2a117d0


Reverse Depends: 
  foxtrotgps,tangogps
  foxtrotgps,tangogps 0.99.4+debian2
Dependencies: 
0.99.4+debian3-1 - foxtrotgps (0 (null)) 
Provides: 
0.99.4+debian3-1 - 
Reverse Provides: 

> strace -o foxtrotgps.strace -s4096 -f foxtrotgps

OK, it is attached.

FWIW, none of the gpsd suite of applications (gpscat, xgps, gpsmon) get any
info from the gps.  However if I run zhone (the phone application on my Neo
Freerunner), it is able to see a wide range of satellites and get a 3-d fix. 
Presumably, this is because it correctly uses the dbus interface.  Does
foxtrotgps not support the dbus/gypsy interface to the gps?

~James

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 07:24:26AM +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> James Hiebert <james at hiebert.name> writes:
> > package upgrade tangogps simply stopped working.
> 
> Hmm, tangogps is not in debian anymore. Foxtrotgps should afaik talk
> both the old and new gpsd protocol. Please run
> 
> strace -o foxtrotgps.strace -s4096 -f foxtrotgps
> 
> and hit ctrl-c when the interface has started but gps is still not
> working. Then use e.g. "bzip2 -9 foxtrotgps.strace" to compress the
> log and send the resulting foxtrotgps.strace.bz2 here or to a bug
> report if it is larger than a few kilobytes.
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