Bug#953722: ITP: josm-installer -- Editor for OpenStreetMap (installer)
On 3/19/20 6:05 PM, John Scott wrote:
>> The package will be maintained with in the Debian GIS team where it will
>> eventually replace the josm package.
>
> Because this package will need to go in contrib or non-free,
It's going to contrib.
> does this mean
> JOSM will be removed from main? I think that is a substantial trade-off to
> provide new backports. Could they both be maintained?
josm will be removed from main if it cannot be updated to newer tested
snapshots, keeping it in the archive at an increasingly outdated
revision makes no sense.
Because the OSM ecosystem is ever changing backports of the tested
snapshots are essential for an OSM editor in Debian.
That's why this package was created, to make it possible for users to
have a recent OSM editor available in Debian.
Since this package was created there has been quite a bit of work by the
JOSM developers to accommodate package in Debian, which may allow us to
keep the josm package mostly as-is, using the source JAR to get the code
for the dependencies. If that works out, this ITP will be closed and the
FTP masters will be asked to REJECT the upload of josm-installer. If it
doesn't work out, josm-installer will become the best way to have a
recent JOSM on Debian.
Kind Regards,
Bas
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