Bug#906505: qlandkartegt: FTBFS in buster/sid (unable to find string literal operator)

[Stuart Prescott]

On Saturday, 25 August 2018 23:05:51 AEST Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> Control: tags -1 wontfix
> 
> On 8/25/18 7:45 PM, Christoph Biedl wrote:
> >     Christoph, who'd like to have a usable qlandkartegt in Debian - how is
> >     QMapShack supposed to be a replacement?
> Upstream stopped developing QLGT and switches his attention to QMS.
> 
> You will have to take over maintenance of qlandkartegt if you want to
> keep it in Debian, but the package and upstream development. As long as
> there is no one actively working on QLGT upstream the fate of the
> package is sealed.
> 
> No one in the Debian GIS team is willing to maintain this EOL package
> any longer, qmapshack is were we invest our effort.

Please file a WNPP bug that orphans qlandkarte. That signals to others that 
they can (and should) take over maintenance of the package. 

§5.9.4 of the Developers Reference covers the case where the existing 
maintainers are unwilling to maintain a package any longer:

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch05.en.html#orphaning

Thanks
Stuart

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