Bug#835873: RM: openstreetmap-client/14.03.1~ds0-1

[Alessio Treglia]

Hi Julien,

Thanks for the prompt reply.

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Julien Cristau  wrote:
> When you say "one of the package's core
> functionalities", that sounds like there's other unaffected
> functionality that may still be successfully used?

Indeed you can still scroll the map around, zoom in or out and search
for places manually.
In my humble opinion, this reduced set of features would annoy the
user and ultimately convince him to go and browse openstreetmap.org
himself.
I think I have identified the issue's root cause [1] too, nonetheless
I cannot guarantee I could put enough effort to solve it anytime soon.

Cheers.


[1] Basically, the app receives a 403 FORBIDDEN due to the
organization's fair usage policy:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim_usage_policy
Technically speaking, it would be a good solution to adapt the code to
issue requests to one of the 3rd-party providers listed above instead
of osm.org's main API endpoint.

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Bug#835873: RM: openstreetmap-client/14.03.1~ds0-1

[Julien Cristau]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 00:31:27 +0100, Alessio Treglia wrote:

> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: rm
> 
> Please remove openstreetmap-client from stable.
> One of the package's core functionalities - the search
> function - is utterly broken. Plus, upstream maintainer
> has been unresponsive for quite a while now - 2 years
> have passed since the last commit.
> 
IMO the latter is irrelevant.  When you say "one of the package's core
functionalities", that sounds like there's other unaffected
functionality that may still be successfully used?

Cheers,
Julien

Bug#835873: RM: openstreetmap-client/14.03.1~ds0-1

[Alessio Treglia]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: rm

Please remove openstreetmap-client from stable.
One of the package's core functionalities - the search
function - is utterly broken. Plus, upstream maintainer
has been unresponsive for quite a while now - 2 years
have passed since the last commit.

I can't find any compelling reason for supporting it on
the long term.

Thanks in advance for considering.


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