tags 562611 wontfix thanks arne anka wrote: > Package: libgps19 > Version: 2.90.1~svn6819-1 > Severity: normal > > navit depends on libgps19 and libgps19 conflicts with fso-gpsd -- w/o > fso-gpsd gps on my freerunner is hardly usable. but with the conflict > navit isn't usable at all! > > i seem to recall that no such conflict used to exist before 19. > > why is there a conflict now?
Mainly because fso-gpsd had a 'Provides: gpsd' entry, which is just plain wrong. fso-gpsd lacks a ton of features that gpsd provides, not to forget that it is just luck that libgps works with the fso-gpsd crap. As soon as the support for the old protocol will be dropped, chances are good that libgps will not work with fso-gpsd anymore. Actually I'm still not sure if I want to remove the conflict for now as removing it might make people think that fso-gpsd will be supported by libgps in the future - but as soon as the support for the old protocol is gone completely, libgps should refuse to work with fso-gpsd, and this will happen soon. Of course you are able to install both packages at the same time and make libgps use a normal gpsd somewhere, but I'm not willing to handle the complaints that libgps will not work with fso-gpsd in the future. The only proper way to handle this is to make fso-gpsd being a small wrapper around gpsd, handling powering on/off the devices and similar things. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
