#1034516 gpsd: Default GPSD_OPTIONS should include -n

Package:
gpsd
Source:
gpsd
Description:
Global Positioning System - daemon
Submitter:
Ryan Govostes
Date:
2023-04-17 18:33:06 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1034516#5
Date:
2023-04-17 14:41:45 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

The lead developer of gpsd says that, "You should always use the '-n' flag"[1].

However, GPSD_OPTIONS in /etc/default/gpsd does not default to including it.

Version 3.22 has a bug (fixed in 3.24 I believe) in which PPS devices are not
properly used if -n is not passed.[2]

1: https://gitlab.com/gpsd/gpsd/-/issues/239#note_1354103016
2: https://gitlab.com/gpsd/gpsd/-/issues/239
#1034516#10
Date:
2023-04-17 18:22:50 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

the lead developer of gpsd refuses to understand how systemd works and is
rather unpleasant to deal with.

In the "default" way (and that is: for most cases don't do anything except
somthing via the socket talks to gpsd), which is the only sane option for
distributions imho, gpsd is configured to talk to a gps device when udev will
recognize one. So there is no need for -n.

If there is a need for anything else - change the configuration.


Bernd