Package: wnpp Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: g...@packages.debian.org Control: affects -1 + src:gpsd
Hi! I intend to orphan the gpsd package. While it was fun to work on the package back at the time when ESR was the lead developer, things have changed unfortunately. If you want to take over the maintenance of the package: - expect a hostile upstream, especially when you talk about distro requirements, systemd or similar things - expect words that will fail to pass any kind of code of conduct. - expect breaking API and ABI changes with every version. - expect scons as build system, which is a major source of PAIN in every imaginable body part. - you should have some knowledge about libraries, symbols, API/ABIs, building shared/static libs and similar things, you might need to be able to debug the build/usage of all these things, althouigh lately the scons stuff worked okayish most of the time. I'm happy to help to take over the maintenance of the package, guess I have a bit of in depth knowledge as I've fixed various bugs on the upstream side, too.... The package description is: The gpsd service daemon can monitor one or more GPS devices connected to a host computer, making all data on the location and movements of the sensors available to be queried on TCP port 2947. . With gpsd, multiple GPS client applications can share access to devices without contention or loss of data. Also, gpsd responds to queries with a format that is substantially easier to parse than the different standards emitted by GPS devices. . This also includes common tools ubxtool and gpsctl for device configuration of the local hardware as well as a ntpshmmon to check generated refclock data. Thanks, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F
