2015-10-20 22:48 GMT+02:00 Sebastiaan Couwenberg <[email protected]>:
> Hi Christopher & all, > > We have the osrm package in Debian (and Ubuntu wily) for about two > months now, after about two years since the ITP bug was filed. > > And now the upstream developers have basically asked us to remove the > package from the archive again because they cannot support it in stable > releases: > > " > I talked to @TheMarex and @danpat and came to the conclusion that we > don't think it would make much sense to have OSRM packaged and > eventually shipped in a stable Debian release. > " > > > https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/issues/1744#issuecomment-149689363 > > This is sad news, but not entirely unexpected. The upstream developers > of mapnik-vector-tile also didn't see the need for Debian packages: > > https://github.com/mapnik/clipper/issues/1#issuecomment-139774002 Note that in this case, there is also a good reason that mapnik-vector-tile is only really used by node-mapnik - the separation was made only for practical reasons. > It may or may not be a coincidence that these developers are employed by > Mapbox. > Also consider mapbox has been working hard to develop new software, and they still are changing a lot of (crazy) things around, so they are certainly not ready to commit to long-term support of this or that version of their modules. But i might be mistaken, or even worse, blinded ;) > The question before us is if we want to keep osrm in Debian and > derivatives despite the reservations of the upstream developers? > Christopher, do you want to keep maintaining osrm for the duration of > stable releases without upstream support? And what are your thoughts > about osrm packaging in Debian in general? > How about keeping packaging in testing / backports ? Jérémy
