FS#50509 - [qlandkartegt] Replace stale program with successor

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by georg (fordprefect) - Wednesday, 24 August 2016, 13:21 GMT
Last edited by Jaroslav Lichtblau (Dragonlord) - Tuesday, 30 August 2016, 18:31 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Jaroslav Lichtblau (Dragonlord)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

QLandkarteGTin [community] [0] is not maintained anymore according to its website [1].
It is superseded by QMapShack [2].
There exists an AUR package for QMS [3] and the package works reasonably well.
I propose to move QMS to [community] and promote it actively as a
replacement for QLGT.
Aside from a few smaller issues on my side i see one big questionmark:
QMS states to be available for 64bit, not supporting 32bit systems.
according to the package statistics [4] (which are by no means
representative, i know) i686 is only accounting ~4%.
Mabye one could leave QLGT as legacy in the repo for a while and seehow
usage in the statistics shifts before replacing it completely?
thank you for considering this

[0] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/qlandkartegt/
[1] http://www.qlandkarte.org/index.html
[2] https://bitbucket.org/maproom/qmapshack/wiki/Home
[3] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/qmapshack/
[4] https://www.archlinux.de/?page=PackageStatistics
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Closed by  Jaroslav Lichtblau (Dragonlord)
Tuesday, 30 August 2016, 18:31 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Additional comments about closing:  qmapshack-1.6.3-2 available in [community] as of today
Comment by Jaroslav Lichtblau (Dragonlord) - Saturday, 27 August 2016, 16:37 GMT
Very good input, thanks for the info. I'll look into this tomorrow.

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