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[Steve Conklin <steve.conklin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/30/2011 11:24 AM, Steve Conklin wrote:
> On 10/30/2011 05:44 AM, Dave wrote:
> > Hi There,
> > Just a quick email to say thanks for the work the guys are doing keeping
> > the Ham repository up-to-date, but I have a small question. Would it be
> > possible to add the latest WSJT and WSPR app's to it?
> >
> > Cheers and Beers....
> >
> > Dave M0DCM - QRV on 40-6m all-modes QRP!
>
> This is a really good topic for the hams at UDS to discuss this week.
>
> wsjt in Debian and Ubuntu is currently at version 5.9.7
> I can't determine the current upstream version at the moment because the
> upstream page is not loading.
>
> The current maintainer for Debian is Hamish Moffatt <hamish@xxxxxxxxxx>,
> and we can check with him about this also, if there's a new version
>
>
> wspr in Debian and Ubuntu is currently not packaged
>
> I have a vague memory of looking at this a year or so ago, and finding some
> pretty severe problems with packaging it. But I'll look again.
> I also can't get to that upstream now. I'll check later

For the record, the current wsjt upstream version is 7.06 with 9.0 in beta

The current wspr upstream version is 2.0, with 2.11 in beta

The upstream site has .debs available for all of these, so someone has done some 
packaging work. I'll continue to investigate.