On 20/10/15 21:48, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > We have the osrm package in Debian (and Ubuntu wily) for about two > months now, after about two years since the ITP bug was filed. > > And now the upstream developers have basically asked us to remove the > package from the archive again because they cannot support it in stable > releases: > > " > I talked to @TheMarex and @danpat and came to the conclusion that we > don't think it would make much sense to have OSRM packaged and > eventually shipped in a stable Debian release. > " > > https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/issues/1744#issuecomment-149689363 > > This is sad news, but not entirely unexpected. The upstream developers > of mapnik-vector-tile also didn't see the need for Debian packages: > > https://github.com/mapnik/clipper/issues/1#issuecomment-139774002 > > It may or may not be a coincidence that these developers are employed by > Mapbox. > > The question before us is if we want to keep osrm in Debian and > derivatives despite the reservations of the upstream developers? > > Christopher, do you want to keep maintaining osrm for the duration of > stable releases without upstream support? And what are your thoughts > about osrm packaging in Debian in general?
I am not currently using OSRM, and have not done so for some time now. Unfortunately, I think that this means that it does not make sense for me to attempt to contribute to the maintenance of the package. Personally I would like to see it available through Debian, but I realise that it is probably sensible to check that someone can provide some minimum level of support, especially as OSRM is used with the ever changing OSM dataset.
