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

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 8/26/18 8:50 AM, Stuart Prescott wrote:
> On Saturday, 25 August 2018 23:05:51 AEST Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>> 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

No, EOL software should be removed. The QA team is not the place for EOL
and broken packages.

The removal of qlandkartegt was a long time coming, since it's been
superseded by qmapshack in Debian and upstream, this issue was just the
trigger.

If you want a usable qlandkartegt in Debian, you first need to revive
upstream development, after which the package can be revived.

Kind Regards,

Bas