Bug#1136020: merkaartor: Merkaartor crashes attempting to download map data

[Neil Williams]

On Fri, 08 May 2026 15:19:13 +0100 Neil Williams <linux at codehelp.co.uk> wrote:
> Package: merkaartor
> Version: 0.20.0+ds-3+b1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> X-Debbugs-Cc: linux at codehelp.co.uk
> 
> Launching merkaartor shows the main window but clicking Download
> causes the app to immediately crash. Without map data, merkaartor
> has no purpose.
> 
> I have also been able to reproduce this in stable.
> 
> The seg fault appears to be in OSMServer.cpp - 
> Download failed: Invalid argument; 
> So I'm suspecting the program is too old to use
> the current OSM API. 
> (The release is 2 yrs old and no recent commits upstream.)
 


This appears to be the same as this upstream issue, opened in Jan 2026:
https://github.com/openstreetmap/merkaartor/issues/317

There's a patch there, I'll see if I can test with that.

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Neil Williams
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