Moving JOSM from pkg-osm git to pkg-grass git

[Andreas Tille]

Hola Mònica,

On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 11:02:45PM +0100, Mònica Ramírez Arceda wrote:
> > I have just noticed your work on gpsprune and this reminds me that I
> > wanted to suggest to move JOSM (as well as other packages in pkg-osm) to
> > pkg-grass since the current split is at best unmotivated and might
> > perhaps confuse people.  I think there was some general consensus in the
> > IRC meeting in September to do this kind of migration.  
> 
> Ok, no problem for me. One question: does it mean to remove "Debian
> OpenStreetMap Team <pkg-osm-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org>" (and
> therefore remove this team) or move it to Uploaders?

I personally see no reason for keeping pkg-osm-maint at l.a.d.o.  As far as
I can see the persons behind this team are also members of pkg-grass.
OSM related packages are spread for no visible reason over both projects
and I think we have a fair chance to reduce confusion by merging them all
into pkg-grass.  Please let me know if you disagree.

> > I'd volunteer to
> > do the actual move and by doing so uploading the latest JOSM version -
> > provided there are no specific pitfalls in JOSM packaging which I might
> > not know.  If you would like to do it even yourself that would be even
> > more welcome.
> 
> josm 6238 is not building in unstable because of this bug:
> http://bugs.debian.org/725186

Ahhh, OK.  I was not aware of this.

> I suppose josm 6338 is not building as well, although I haven't tested
> it.
>
> I was waiting for the fix of this bug to upload the new josm, but I can
> try to package josm 6338 and upload it to experimental, like I've done
> with gpsprune (although there is a regression with
> libmetadata-extractor-java). What do you think about it?

After reading #725186 I think it makes sense to wait a couple of days
for an answer of Emmanuel since your latest progress report is from
yesterday.  May be he will be able to upload a fixed
libmetadata-extractor-java quickly and thus you would spend your time
into outdated josm version which I would not call very productive.

Thanks for your work on this and feel free to ping me if I could be
of any help (but please do not expect much help from me regarding
actual Java code :-().

Saludos

       Andreas.

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