-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am maintaining it for some months now and it has reached a state where we should think about treecleaning it.
reasons: a) bundles tons of libs since ages (security and stability issues, many of them can not be unbundled) https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212373 b) segfaults randomly; the new version as well https://code.google.com/p/earth-api-samples/issues/detail?id=957 https://code.google.com/p/earth-issues/issues/detail?id=1608 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470684 c) random runtime bugs https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474462 d) upstream ignores bug reports or is unable to fix them e) upstream is unable to upload tarballs with a version in the filename which leads to checksum failure and trouble for users if they want to install an older version, because the new one is broken again Maintaining a package in gentoo implies a few things for me: We are able to support it properly which either means that we can communicate with upstream or at least (if that fails) fix bugs on our own. Currently, both does not apply to googleearth which means we cannot resolve a lot of bugs in any way. Also... software in the tree should meet a minimum of quality and we should not support vulnerable and broken software officially. solution: Treeclean it and maintain it in an overlay (maybe science-overlay). That's exactly what overlays are for... experimental stuff. alternatives to googleearth: - - lots of web services ("google maps", "openstreet maps", ...) - - "nasa world wind" (not in the tree afais but opensource and java) - - kde-base/marble -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJR6/ywAAoJEFpvPKfnPDWzHjMIAKqEUw5AKmuSxLe8hicFDqbN lR92Hq6cKMqhJDrIB/uohT+PdjnBfC4hZabCFLPSB9uijOXpR2cliwFeKuq6eeJE 3HW1UuaVd71s0r8cCGO6sFhuoN56DJapF0OvU6TU7CouZcpR7gIuN7jhGcj4uVf2 JDI8HT+n4f9L5cTSb65YhLYZjuUGEHqZn6g6X6o2G01kZaoYPyFHatUkfXyb7FSm jpJWCLWv4CdmEZWb+YbN+afHGYU4rkbW7XLJ6gLmvJxx/TtHg9FFU6xJotAlMvTL X5lHQDep2iWwYm7hA5r1h9xM98ElucI4Eg+lsiLbkmCj3mIR3QS5Nq+b2VaN9lc= =Qslh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----