Bug#736338: drawmap: New upstream version available

[Ivan Mincik]

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On 01/22/2014 12:58 PM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Package: drawmap Severity: minor
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I did some investigation about packages which were not uploaded a long time
> by the according team.  For Debian GIS it is drawmap (last upload 
> 2007-05-18).  I'd regard the package in bad shape since it mentions a 
> homepage which just throws 404, no Vcs URLs are specified (I did not 
> checked whether it really is not in Vcs) and it has long standing open 
> bugs.  In Debian Med I would simply upgrade the packaging, inject it into
> Vcs and check for new upstream.  I have found a slightly newer upstream
> here:
> 
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/science/cartography/drawmap-2.6.tar.gz
> 
> My questions are:
> 
> - Does anybody know a newer version? - Has this probably orphaned upstream
> program some use these days and should we as in Debian GIS team care for
> this.
> 
> If the later question is answered with "yes" (and perhaps some reasons for
> this yes are given) I would volunteer to move the packaging into Debian GIS
> Git, update to the latest upstream version and upgrade the packaging to the
> rules of Debian GIS policy.


Is this package orphaned again [1] ? I have never heard about such tool. I was
trying to find some information on web and it seems that this project was
started somewhere before 1998 [2] and it is not developed anymore.

1 -
http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Re-Accepted-drawmap-2-5-2-source-i386-td4058043.html
2 - http://sources.debian.net/src/drawmap/2.5-3/WHATS_NEW

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