Update Chirp

[TasogareNoOkami]

Chirp is built on a regular basis (supposedly nightly) and often adds new radio models or better support for an existing model.

The version in the repos is two years old.

Chirp is the most common tool for programming radios via the audio cable (which some cheap or older models can only be programmed this way).
While primarily used for Amateur Radio the programming tool itself just manages configurations.

https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Home

[Stevo]

I'll take a look at it.

20221106 is in upstream Debian.

[BV206]

The best thing to do is download the flatpak file from their web site and manually install it.
https://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_daily/LATEST

The .deb/repo version requires some outdated non-supported libraries that require hoop jumping to get to work on Linux.

It might also be easier to use the Windows version via WINE but I don't know if that works on the current versions of MX/Debian.

[BV206]

20221106 is in upstream Debian.

Wow. They must have fixed something then.

[Stevo]

Yes, just recently:

(here's my backports hot off the computer: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PgZGVL ... share_link)

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chirp (1:20221106+py3-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Debian Janitor ]
  * Bump debhelper from old 12 to 13.
  * Set upstream metadata fields: Repository.
  * Update standards version to 4.6.0, no changes needed.

  [ Christoph Berg ]
  * New upstream version 20221106+py3.
  * Switch upstream to github. (Closes: #1012538)

 -- Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>  Tue, 08 Nov 2022 12:03:58 +0100

chirp (1:20200227+py3+20200213-4) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Paul Tagliamonte ]
  * Team Upload.
  * Pull in patch set from https://github.com/atpage/chirp - this fork fixes
    a significant amount of bugs from the py3 branch that we havn't got to yet.

 -- Dave Hibberd <d@vehibberd.com>  Sat, 20 Mar 2021 22:43:37 +0000

[TasogareNoOkami]

The best thing to do is download the flatpak file from their web site and manually install it.
https://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_daily/LATEST

The .deb/repo version requires some outdated non-supported libraries that require hoop jumping to get to work on Linux.

It might also be easier to use the Windows version via WINE but I don't know if that works on the current versions of MX/Debian.

I've never had a problem with the tar balls on the dan planet site.
But I installed the needed serial port and xml support packages some time ago so it never was an issue for me.

If some people need the flatpacks, whatever, the tar balls work fine (that is until I see that it is still a python2 script; python3 has a lot of complaints)

[Okay I see that python3 support is a bit of an issue; but I don't see where the chirp-py3 version is available]

[TasogareNoOkami]

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chirp (1:20221106+py3-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Debian Janitor ]
  * Bump debhelper from old 12 to 13.
  * Set upstream metadata fields: Repository.
  * Update standards version to 4.6.0, no changes needed.

  [ Christoph Berg ]
  * New upstream version 20221106+py3.
  * Switch upstream to github. (Closes: #1012538)

Wow they only just now switched to the github site that has been around since 2012 ?

I mean I have been following the dan planet site for daily builds and didn't know about the github site (it isn't listed on the dan planet site) but still ?

I'll have to check the python3 fork and see if that works better.

[Stevo]

The python3 fork is what we had in the main MX 21 repo, and has now been updated.

Give it a try!

[TasogareNoOkami]

Yes, just recently:

(here's my backports hot off the computer: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PgZGVL ... share_link)

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  [ Paul Tagliamonte ]
  * Team Upload.
  * Pull in patch set from https://github.com/atpage/chirp - this fork fixes
    a significant amount of bugs from the py3 branch that we havn't got to yet.

I don't know if I trust that fork.

A) it isn't forked from the official project
B) describes the program as a CLI for programming radios which it is not.
C) uses an old mercurial chirp project from another project (d-rats)

Not quite sure why debian pulled that one in ?

I am going to look at steve's archive later

[TasogareNoOkami]

The python3 fork is what we had in the main MX 21 repo, and has now been updated.

Give it a try!

I will later.

I like the chirp program and hope it is continued to be updated.

It is the number one program most hams are referred to whenever someone asks what to use to program their radios.