Bug#1075775: please package new upstream release 2.6.0 or greater to possibly support many new transit providers

[John Scott]

Source: railway-gtk
Version: 2.4.0-4
Severity: wishlist

Hi friends,

New versions of Railway appear to have added support for not only new transit routes, but also new services to discover transit routes. The current packaged version is geared towards rail travel in Europe, but it appears that the new version should be capable of public transportation more broadly, especially in the United States. Given that Google Maps alternatives such as OpenStreetMap are already uncommon in the US, I think this new upstream release could be a giant leap forward in breaking up the monoculture.
At least for the large American bus network around me, it doesn't seem like there's any practical way to navigate it using free software. There are plans to change it, but for now public transit support in GNOME Maps is basically a patchwork that (I think) only covers a single US city. Thus I think that letting users get their feet wet with possibilities will also motivate discussions for the rest of the ecosystem to improve.

I'm a Debian Maintainer for unrelated packages and have made small merge requests to GNOME packages before, so although it would be ambitious, please let me know if you'd like me to try this.

Thanks

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, arm64

Kernel: Linux 6.8.12-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_USER, TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

-- no debconf information
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 228 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-gnome-maintainers/attachments/20240704/291e9744/attachment-0001.sig>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/pkcs7-signature
Size: 6270 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-gnome-maintainers/attachments/20240704/291e9744/attachment-0001.p7s>