Hello desktop team, Since you guys seem to care about geoclue, you might be interested in adopting.
I also offer to sponsor incase you cannot upload to Debian. Maybe it makes sense to maintain under pkg-gnome? Cheers! ----- Forwarded message from Bernd Zeimetz <[email protected]> ----- > Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:14:28 +0100 > From: Bernd Zeimetz <[email protected]> > To: debian-devel <[email protected]> > Subject: The state of geoclue in Debian > List-Id: <debian-devel.lists.debian.org> > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.21) > Gecko/20110831 Icedove/3.1.13 > > Hi, > > as empathy, webkit and emerillon build-depend on geoclue these days, I thought > its time to write something about it on d-devel instead of just orphaning it > ;) > > We are facing several issues with geoclue: > - upstream is more or less dead.The only commits I see in their git are > bugfixes > for major issues. > - Ubuntu splitted the package and applied various changes without getting in > contact with their Debian upstream about it. I'm not willing to try to figure > out what they did and why and if it makes sense. LP also shows various > not-so-nice-sounding bugs (I didn't investigate). > - The gpsd provider is a complte mess, the NM stuff also fails to build with > NM > from experimental, even with the suggested patches applied. And I'm not keen > on > shipping the latest git master instead of a released version. > > So unless somebody steps up to maintain *and* actively develop geoclue, it > will > be orphaned soon and I'll file bugs to remove it from the packages which > build-depend on it. > > Cheers, > > 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 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Iain Lane [ [email protected] ] Debian Developer [ [email protected] ] Ubuntu Developer [ [email protected] ] PhD student [ [email protected] ]
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