On 2020-01-20 14:57, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
On 20/01/2020 17:38, Bas Couwenberg wrote:
On 2020-01-20 13:56, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
why does the low frequency of release of this software justify its
removal from Debian ?
Because at the time it was removed it was deemed dead upstream, there
were no releases for several years.
There was no sign that upstream was working on a release with PROJ6
support among others.
I'm not willing to maintain packages that are dead upstream and who
block progress in the lower parts of the stack (like PROJ & GDAL).
If your needs are not met by JOSM and you really want the merkaartor
package back in Debian you should consider becoming the maintainer of
it.
I am considering it indeed.
I will have a closer look before.
Did you orphan it ? or remove it ?
The history speaks for itself:
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/merkaartor
Specifically:
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1050519/removed-0183ds-6-from-unstable/
Which includes the reason:
"
------------------- Reason -------------------
ROM; No release since 2016, FTBFS with PROJ 6 & GDAL 3
----------------------------------------------
"
And a link to the RM bug:
https://bugs.debian.org/933492
Note the section in the Developer's Reference about reintroducing
packages:
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#reintroducing-packages
And the team policy if you intend to maintain the package within the
Debian GIS team:
https://debian-gis-team.pages.debian.net/policy/
Kind Regards,
Bas
