-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/22/2014 12:58 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > Package: drawmap Severity: minor > > Hi, > > I did some investigation about packages which were not uploaded a long time > by the according team. For Debian GIS it is drawmap (last upload > 2007-05-18). I'd regard the package in bad shape since it mentions a > homepage which just throws 404, no Vcs URLs are specified (I did not > checked whether it really is not in Vcs) and it has long standing open > bugs. In Debian Med I would simply upgrade the packaging, inject it into > Vcs and check for new upstream. I have found a slightly newer upstream > here: > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/science/cartography/drawmap-2.6.tar.gz > > My questions are: > > - Does anybody know a newer version? - Has this probably orphaned upstream > program some use these days and should we as in Debian GIS team care for > this. > > If the later question is answered with "yes" (and perhaps some reasons for > this yes are given) I would volunteer to move the packaging into Debian GIS > Git, update to the latest upstream version and upgrade the packaging to the > rules of Debian GIS policy.
Is this package orphaned again [1] ? I have never heard about such tool. I was trying to find some information on web and it seems that this project was started somewhere before 1998 [2] and it is not developed anymore. 1 - http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Re-Accepted-drawmap-2-5-2-source-i386-td4058043.html 2 - http://sources.debian.net/src/drawmap/2.5-3/WHATS_NEW - -- Ivan Minčík ivan.min...@gmail.com GPG: 0x79529A1E http://imincik.github.io/0x79529A1E.key ivan.min...@gista.sk GPG: 0xD714B02C http://imincik.github.io/0xD714B02C.key -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJS3/bhAAoJEPfdLsR5UpoeqGwIALYN0p7NtJmiOHKGwzwQ4YVM og39f0y+v1RB62BEeBhbtc49tSP3slAHr933DB/zppL3RVcf7xpknTZ5E91qyjXA oGgV0GJl313hjUOAE3wf/bd7azr7fQVayXTp1Bhqrz79z/NET4aMYpsM5uq59QK/ JI/Hmdf51MkKoLfVk1JNVLAVby7RPjhzjvQs/WdE61H52+h2R7+BBwMCGIDXQk4+ GZEAHe680iLFqbVZAk3NK1xqSKQGKVBGLv2U3oViPnN+QyiqSfNUihvy23HHFjoa ZnzaWXaKMAC1bfish/UUn+dqjTewUqsmIAHpA3xK6h9JaqC9XBAzyEg7h0pFVdQ= =HYXr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Pkg-grass-devel mailing list Pkg-grass-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grass-devel