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I am maintaining it for some months now and it has reached a state |
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where we should think about treecleaning it. |
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reasons: |
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a) bundles tons of libs since ages (security and stability issues, |
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many of them can not be unbundled) |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212373 |
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b) segfaults randomly; the new version as well |
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https://code.google.com/p/earth-api-samples/issues/detail?id=957 |
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https://code.google.com/p/earth-issues/issues/detail?id=1608 |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470684 |
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c) random runtime bugs |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474462 |
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d) upstream ignores bug reports or is unable to fix them |
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e) upstream is unable to upload tarballs with a version in the |
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filename which leads to checksum failure and trouble for users if they |
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want to install an older version, because the new one is broken again |
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Maintaining a package in gentoo implies a few things for me: |
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We are able to support it properly which either means that we can |
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communicate with upstream or at least (if that fails) fix bugs on our |
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own. Currently, both does not apply to googleearth which means we |
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cannot resolve a lot of bugs in any way. |
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Also... software in the tree should meet a minimum of quality and we |
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should not support vulnerable and broken software officially. |
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solution: Treeclean it and maintain it in an overlay (maybe |
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science-overlay). That's exactly what overlays are for... experimental |
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stuff. |
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alternatives to googleearth: |
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- - lots of web services ("google maps", "openstreet maps", ...) |
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- - "nasa world wind" (not in the tree afais but opensource and java) |
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- - kde-base/marble |
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