Re: Geo::Point, Geo::Proj4 and PROJ 6

[Xavier <yadd@debian.org>]

Le 17/04/2019 à 20:42, Sebastiaan Couwenberg a écrit :
> The Geo::Proj4 module is not compatible with the recently released PROJ
> 6, because it uses the deprecated projects.h API that has been removed
> in PROJ 6.
> 
> Upstream has indicated that he's not been using it for over a decade
> [0]. Hence there still is no progress on moving away from projects.h.
> 
> The popcon data suggests that the only users of Geo::Proj4 do so via
> Geo::Point. The number of votes for both packages are less than a dozen.
> 
> I intent to request removal of libgeo-proj4-perl once we start the
> transition to PROJ 6, which implies that libgeo-point-perl needs to be
> removed as well.
> 
> If you want to keep libgeo-point-perl in Debian, it either needs to not
> require libgeo-proj4-perl or the latter needs to be updated to support
> the proj.h API. And if you want to keep libgeo-point-perl,
> libgeo-proj4-perl needs to be adopted too, I no longer have any interest
> in maintaining the package, as I don't consider it to have a future.
> 
> What do you want to do with libgeo-point-perl & libgeo-proj4-perl?
> 
> [0] https://github.com/markov2/perl5-Geo-Proj4/issues/1

This requires also to remove reverse dependencies:

libgeo-proj4-perl         (18 recent installs, 10 votes)
 +-> libosm-gary68-perl   (10 recent installs,  5 votes)
 |    +-> rel2gpx         (10 recent installs,  5 votes)
 +-> libgeo-point-perl    (13 recent installs,  8 votes)

Cheers,
Xavier