[bernd at bzed.de: The state of geoclue in Debian]

[Iain Lane]

Hello desktop team,

Since you guys seem to care about geoclue, you might be interested in
adopting.

I also offer to sponsor incase you cannot upload to Debian. Maybe it
makes sense to maintain under pkg-gnome?

Cheers!

----- Forwarded message from Bernd Zeimetz <bernd at bzed.de> -----

> Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:14:28 +0100
> From: Bernd Zeimetz <bernd at bzed.de>
> To: debian-devel <debian-devel at lists.debian.org>
> Subject: The state of geoclue in Debian
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> as empathy, webkit and emerillon build-depend on geoclue these days, I thought
> its time to write something about it on d-devel instead of just orphaning it ;)
> 
> We are facing several issues with geoclue:
> - upstream is more or less dead.The only commits I see in their git are bugfixes
> for major issues.
> - Ubuntu splitted the package and applied various changes without getting in
> contact with their Debian upstream about it. I'm not willing to try to figure
> out what they did and why and if it makes sense. LP also shows various
> not-so-nice-sounding bugs (I didn't investigate).
> - The gpsd provider is a complte mess, the NM stuff also fails to build with NM
> from experimental, even with the suggested patches applied. And I'm not keen on
> shipping the latest git master instead of a released version.
> 
> So unless somebody steps up to maintain *and* actively develop geoclue, it will
> be orphaned soon and I'll file bugs to remove it from the packages which
> build-depend on it.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bernd
> 
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Iain Lane                                  [ iain at orangesquash.org.uk ]
Debian Developer                                   [ laney at debian.org ]
Ubuntu Developer                                   [ laney at ubuntu.com ]
PhD student                                       [ ial at cs.nott.ac.uk ]
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