[Bug 409796] Re: [MIR] gpsd

[Bernd Zeimetz]

Loïc Minier wrote:
> @Bernd, I understand we aren't promoting gpsd for xgps or xgpsspeed;
> would it make sense to split gpsd in two modules upstream or in
> Debian+Ubuntu: one providing the daemon, bindings and development files,
> and the other containing the UI stuff? 

Upstream is not willing to split the source - I can understand that very well.
And I'm not willing to fork the upstream source to split it. Forking sources is
a bad idea in any case, and you'll have to maintain the fork probably until the
end of your life. No thanks.

> This might be a way to offer
> more toolkits backends in the future: gtk+ and qt are probably ok if
> they are optional I guess?

There is no problem to ship various clients in one source and upstream would
accept patches to add xgpd/xgpdspeed/...clients written for other toolkits, as
long as they have somebody who maintains them upstream. If there would be a qt
or gtk replacement for the X based clients, I wouldn't mind to drop lesstiff
from the builddeps.

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[MIR] gpsd
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