Henk writes:
Oeps, sorry forgot to quote the original post of joseph.
+1 Hmm in my opinion rtl_sdr is the next best thing since the invention of canned beer :) since it liberated the airwaves for allot of users.
Regards, henk
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 7:11 PM, Joseph Poirier jdpoirier@gmail.com wrote:
If would be nice to have a newer official release available; installation using the package manager on many Linux distros gets a two year old librtlsdr that's missing the rtlsdr_set_tuner_bandwidth function (added about nine months ago), as well as, other nice updates and fixes.
cheers, joe
Oh yes, Debian Jessie did not release with rtlsdr bandwidth setting code. But, the rtl-sdr currently available in Debian unstable, testing and jessie-backports include current git HEAD code - v0.5.3-12-ge3c03f7. (based upon git://git.osmocom.org/rtl-sdr.git)
So, while the Debian source package starts from the v0.5.3 tag, I use the 3.0 (quilt) source format to also include more recent git commits. https://sources.debian.net/src/rtl-sdr/0.5.3-5/debian/patches/
Ubuntu Wily Werewolf and Xenial Xerus also contain rtl-sdr based on v0.5.3-12-ge3c03f7.
A release would be good. I'd be happy to reduce the amount of stuff in the debian/ packaging directory - the various man pages could be adopted upstream, as well as the improve-librtlsdr-pc-file and improve-scanning-range-parsing patches.
And a gpg signed tarball release, or even just a gpg signed tag would be a help in establishing source code integrity. A new release for osmocom might indeed help synchronize the various distributions.
Thanks for keeping me informed, -Maitland