Sebastiaan Couwenberg <[email protected]> writes: > Now that we finally have a new JOSM tested snapshot in Debian, we need > to decide whether or not to maintain backports for it too. This was > requests about two years ago in #705548, and the experience with the > outdated JOSM 8159 in Debian for some time (popular plugins require more > recent tested snapshots) show that there is a need for recent JOSM > versions for stable users. > > Backporting JOSM also required backporting JMapViewer. The jmapviewer > package in Debian is also a dependency on freeplane which tends to break > with JMapViewer releases.
hello Bas, yes, unfortunately the JMapViewer developers tend to break backwards compatibility with almost every (minor) release :-/ Backporting JMapViewer (and thus Freeplane) to jessie would involve backporting knopflerfish (which should be easy because no other r-deps need to be fixed) and possibly (if Freeplane 1.6 will be released in time) "insubstantial" (flamingo/substance/trident) as well, which includes fixing several r-deps (which I consider to be a lot of work!). BTW: I will be away from my workstation from ~ 17.11.-8.12. (or even until 15.12.). Do you want to upgrade JMapViewer in that time frame? Cheers and Best Regards, -- Felix Natter
