Bug#736338: drawmap: New upstream version available

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Ivan,

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 05:50:41PM +0100, Ivan Mincik wrote:
> > 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

Well, besides the slightly upgrade upstream version I was linking to
there seem to be no upstream upgrades any more.  I can't say whether it
is "officially" orphaned in Debian but there were no uploads for the
last couple of years.  I would only spent my time into upgrading the
package if there are people who confirm that it is useful.  According
to the popcon stats at

    http://blends.debian.org/gis/tasks/workstation#drawmap

there is some use even if the number is not amazing.

So are there any users of drawmap lurking on the list???

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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