Bug#949183: Package gone but there are newer version

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello Bas, thanks for your reply.

On 20/01/2020 17:38, Bas Couwenberg wrote:
> On 2020-01-20 13:56, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>> why does the low frequency of release of this software justify its
>> removal from Debian ?
> 
> Because at the time it was removed it was deemed dead upstream, there were no releases for several years.
> 
> There was no sign that upstream was working on a release with PROJ6 support among others.
> 
> I'm not willing to maintain packages that are dead upstream and who block progress in the lower parts of the stack (like PROJ & GDAL).
> 
> If your needs are not met by JOSM and you really want the merkaartor package back in Debian you should consider becoming the maintainer of it.

I am considering it indeed.
I will have a closer look before.
Did you orphan it ? or remove it ?


Regards,
Jerome

> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Bas

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