Hello Bas, thanks for your reply. 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 ? Regards, Jerome > > Kind Regards, > > Bas -- Jerome BENOIT | calculus+at-rezozer^dot*net https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=calcu...@rezozer.net AE28 AE15 710D FF1D 87E5 A762 3F92 19A6 7F36 C68B