Subject: Re: [bug#38650] hackrf: new package

From: Christopher Howard <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 22:05:28 -0900

HackRF team says they are preparing a new release, but it may be a few
weeks yet.

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On Mon, 2019-12-23 at 09:00 +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> thanks for the patch!
> 
> Please, if possible, ask upstream to provide a release.
> 
> It's not a good idea to use a random git commit in an official GNU
> distribution--
> much better to just have them release a version.
> 
> On Tue, 17 Dec 2019 05:45:14 -0900
> Christopher Howard <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> > Patch is attached for new package `hackrf'. Installing this package
> > installs the userspace hackrf utilities and C library. To install
> > the
> > hackrf udev rules, you must add this package as a system service
> > via
> > modify-services. E.g.:
> > 
> > '''
> >   (services
> >    (modify-services
> >     (append
> >      #| your other services |#
> >     (udev-service-type config =>
> >      (udev-configuration (inherit config)
> >       (rules (cons hackrf
> >                    (udev-configuration-rules config)))))))
> > '''
> > And also you need to add your local user to the `dialout' group. 
> 
> Please document that in the description so it's not lost (description
> can do texinfo markup).