Re: Geo::Point, Geo::Proj4 and PROJ 6
On 4/17/19 9:02 PM, Xavier wrote:
> 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)
Those are all maintained by the GIS team, and just a dead upstream as
Geo::Proj4, and will also be removed. But these are not relevant for the
Perl team.
> +-> libgeo-point-perl (13 recent installs, 8 votes)
Kind Regards,
Bas
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