Re: status of the OpenCPN package?
Antoine Beaupré wrote:
>> I am writing to you because you have participated in the review of the
>> new OpenCPN debian package as part of bug #538067.
>>
>> I would be ready to sponsor the package if people are okay with its
>> current state. It would be a shame to have the package stalled in that
>> bug report forever like this. :)
>>
>> Note that upstream is now at version 3.2.2 as well, so there may be some
>> work required to get it up to the latest release. Yet i believe that
>> uploading 2.5 would be better than nothing.
>>
>> What's blocking this? do you need an uploader?
Francesco:
> I think Hamish_B who worked in the past on this is currently busy, as
> happens frequently with Real Life. I'm not sure if anyone is able
> to work on that starting from current status.
Hi,
indeed I am super busy with other responsibilites right now, but I haven't
given up on this package! There is very little blocking it now, I don't
even remeber what if anything, need to check the last post to the ITP and
the ftp-master's previous rejection comment. :) AFAIR it wasn't anything
major.
I was hesitating to update the packaging in debiangis svn for two reasons,
one was that the 2.5.0 package was 99% ready to go, and a 3.2.2 would
require resetting the QA-clock to zero. So my plan there was to get 2.5.0
into sid immediately then work on 3.2.2 after. The second reason was that
opencpn 3 replaced the graphics canvas with OpenGL, and for Debian/Ubuntu
combined with a Intel GPU it caused a rendering bug for many people. (one
of the main use cases for opencpn is on laptops where intel GPUs are very
common). It's been a while since I checked on the status of the bug, but
I'm thinking that it is still present in 3.2.2? (don't quote me on that :)
Also since for me at least 2.5.0 is basically feature-complete and a very
rock-solid release, I wasn't in a rush for the new nice extra features
like improved AIS and radar overlay. Nice, but not critical to the primary
purpose of the program.
Probably todo is to check if the build is still ok with the latest sid,
since perhaps some package names could need updating in the control file.
But otherwise I am quite confident in the state of the current packaging
and very supportive of one final review before upload. A huge amount of
work went into it, so it would be a real shame to throw it out and start
again, even if a lot of our review is now merged upstream!
thanks for your interest,
Hamish
ps- MB-System is also very close to being ready for final review, the
final 3rd party murky license trouble is now happily resolved with LGPL
since a couple weeks ago. (packaging code for this also in alioth debiangis
svn)
pps- updated gpsdrive too! although I've been maintaining that in the
upstream debian/ dir and need to merge that with alioth, and make one
final mapnik2 api change commit before I tag a new release. RC version
can be tested with ubu 14.04 at dev side of http://live.osgeo.org.
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