[pkg-fso-maint] Navit and gypsy Re: The state of things with the gpsd

[Sebastian Reichel]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:24:30PM +0100, Gilles Filippini wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Steffen Moeller a écrit , Le 12/02/2010 10:30:
> > Rico Rommel wrote:
> >> I have rebuilt navit with gypsy support and it works well without a need of 
> >> gpsd.
> > 
> > I have looked through your packages on bierrommel.de and am pretty much
> > impressed by what you have all done.  Somehow your Linux activities do not
> > seem to match the remaining bits of what bierrommel.de is about, which
> > makes it all even more impressive.
> > 
> > I am confident that you find sponsors for your work on this list, if you
> > want them. And just in case that you are not aware of it, there is the
> > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer concept to avoid the need for local
> > repositories and http://wiki.debian.org/Keysigning/Offers#DE for local
> > contacts and key signing.
> > 
> >> So a few days ago i opened a bug with a wishlist item:
> >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=569131
> > 
> > Are you in contact with Gilles, the navit maintainer, on this issue?
> 
> I've received the Rico's bug report, but had no time to acknowledge it yet.
> 
> But I don't think navit should ship with gypsy support while gypsy isn't
> properly packaged in Debian. I'll have a look at the package on
> bierrommel.de by the next week. And I'm ok to sponsor it in case it's in
> good shape.
> 
> Once gypsy is in Debian I'll add support for it to the navit package.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> _g.

Hi,

The gps part of fso-frameworkd is a gypsy implementation:
http://docs.freesmartphone.org

-- Sebastian
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