Bug 561788 – sci-geosciences/qlandkartegt is obsolete

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jean-Claude Repetto 2015-09-29 07:38:39 UTC]

sci-geosciences/qlandkartegt is obsolete and has been replaced by QMapShack (https://packages.gentoo.org/package/sci-geosciences/qmapshack).

Please remove it from the portage tree.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Pacho Ramos 2016-05-06 10:37:56 UTC]

This would need the cleaning of sci-geosciences/qlandkartegt-garmindev too

[Comment 2 Sam Jorna (wraeth) 2016-05-06 11:41:02 UTC]

I left a !note for hanno a few days ago but he hasn't been online to see it, so bug 582262 should suffice instead.

[Comment 3 Sam Jorna (wraeth) 2016-05-24 02:33:02 UTC]

# Sam Jorna <[e-mail]> (24 May 2016)
# Deprecated in favour of sci-geosciences/qmapshack.
# See bugs 561788 and 582262
# Masked for removal in 30 days.
sci-geosciences/qlandkartegt
sci-geosciences/qlandkartegt-garmindev

[Comment 4 savi 2016-06-02 06:41:11 UTC]

qlandkartegt may be obsolete but the replacement is very far from offering the same functionalities. For example, qlandkartegt offers 84 different online topo maps out of the box, whereas qmapshack offers 4...
The usability of qmapshack is also questionable for the moment...

I think qlandkartegt should be keep in portage tree for the moment, even if it's not maintained any more.

[Comment 5 heiko.fischer 2016-06-11 08:42:53 UTC]

qmapshack has no proxy support

[Comment 6 dawgg 2016-06-15 11:22:29 UTC]

i completely agree with savi and [e-mail].
qmapshack may offer a similar functionality as qlandkartegt, but it is a (very) different program.
it also lacks important features that qlandkartegt offers, most notably the ability to interface directly with some well-established gps-devices (via the garmindev-drivers).
see my post in the forums: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1046250.html
i keep qlandkartegt and qlandkartegt-garmindev in my overlay but i ask that it be kept inside the "official" portage-tree.
(besides, the devs do not offer any reasons WHY they think qlandkartegt may be "deprecated" or should not be developed any more)

[Comment 7 Michał Górny 2016-06-26 15:11:20 UTC]

commit 8553a1f012b967410579bcd1a296d730ddebdc96
Author:     Michał Górny <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: Sun Jun 26 17:09:54 2016
Commit:     Michał Górny <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: Sun Jun 26 17:09:54 2016

    sci-geosciences/qlandkartegt*: Remove last rited packages