Re: Removing gpsdrive from the archive
On 19-12-15 14:09, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> Yesterday the gpsdrive package reached a new milestone: 1500 days not in
> testing.
>
> The new revision available in SVN for some time doesn't resolve all the
> outstanding RC bugs, and it doesn't look like Hamish will pick up
> development soon to resolve them.
>
> We should therefore remove gpsdrive from unstable too, because it's not
> even fit for inclusion in Ubuntu via syncs from unstable.
>
> I will file the RM bug after the holidays unless active work on the
> package and its upstream picks up in the mean time to address the
> outstanding RC bugs.
The removal bugreport [0] was quickly acted upon by the FTP masters,
gpsdrive is no longer available in unstable either. Ubuntu is expected
to remove gpsdrive from xenial too.
[0] https://bugs.debian.org/809674
Kind Regards,
Bas
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