Package: qtlocation-opensource-src source Version: 5.11.3+dfsg-2 Packaging of QtLocation excludes Mapbox GL plugin. Originally, it was enforced by the presence of JSON-licensed code. These days, while LICENSE.md does mention JSON-license, we could not find any code that would be licensed with it.
As a developer, I would expect that all its parts (or open-source parts) are available on the platforms that package it. So, when I want to run a code that is calling Mapbox GL plugin, it should be possible if QtLocation >= 5.9 is packaged. Currently, these expectations fail in Debian and related distributions. While discussing Mapbox GL as a part of QtLocation, we have to keep in mind that, at this moment, QtLocation is using qt-staging branch of Mapbox GL. Hence, the discussion would have to be related to that particular branch. The issues pointed out by Debian maintainers are: - large number of dependencies bundled with Mapbox GL, see deps/ in source code - incompatibility in qt-staging and master branches disallowing to cherry-pick bugfixes - lack of manpower to maintain such large package References: Related discussion in debian-qt-kde list, main emails: https://lists.debian.org/debian-qt-kde/2019/06/msg00000.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-qt-kde/2019/06/msg00001.html
