There are some issues with the current source (version 1.20) one need to consider when packaging this program.
- The binaries generated have very generic/non-specific names (viz, gpsd, gps). This should probably be changed in the package. - The gpsd binary included in this package is incompatible with the gpsd binary used by kismed, gpsdrive and other packages. I have a patch available to convert gpsd3d to use libgps from the gpsd package, to work around this. - The code to download more detailed maps is not working. It is connecting to obsolete URLs, and will hang when the feature is used. It might be possible to steal some code from gpsdrive for this, as the map downloading feature work in gpsdrive. - One should check out the source of map.pnm included in the source, and verify the license of it. - It would be smart to add support for loading the globe map as PNG or JPEG, to save space in the binary package. At the moment the pnm version is 3.1 MiB, and this is the largest file in the package. - The upstream author is not very responsive. I've sent a few emails, and it can take months before he responds. He said he is not really developing gps3d any more, due to lack of time. A fork might be needed to revitalise the development. Still, this is a very nice package. It has helped me a lot with visualizing the current GPS status, and even assisted in improving the gpsd package.
