Bug#953722: ITP: josm-installer -- Editor for OpenStreetMap (installer)
On 3/19/20 6:29 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> On 3/19/20 6:05 PM, John Scott wrote:
>> 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 snapshots, keeping it in the archive at an increasingly outdated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.
If the source JARs work out to keep josm in Debian, we could also keep
this package as an alternative. By adding an local override for the
josm-installer systemd service it's easy to have it automatically update
the latest builds of JOSM instead of tracking the tested builds we do
for the josm package.
If people want to have both, they should get involved in the maintenance
of the packages.
Kind Regards,
Bas
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