[pkg-fso-maint] Bug#559483: fso-gpsd: Provides: gpsd is just *wrong*

[Gilles Filippini]

Hi,

Bernd Zeimetz a écrit , Le -10/01/-28163 20:59:
> Package: fso-gpsd
> Severity: serious
> 
> fso-gpsd should never provide gpsd, as it supports only a very tiny
> bit of the functions gpsd provides. I'm filing this bug
> as release critical, as the broken provides will break at least
> all applications which use libgps to talk to gpsd. While it
> might be that this works at the moment because you're lucky,
> it will definitely break with the next upload of gpsd as the
> protocol changed.
> Also all programs which rely on the dbus announcements of gpsd
> will break (yes, fso-gpsd is not compatible with that). Not to
> forget that fso-gpsd does only supports a few of the amount of
> chipsets supported properly by gpsd.

I think Bernd is right here.

And fso-gpsd could live without providing gpsd since e.g. navit and
tangogps only recommends gpsd.

So... What about simply dropping this 'Provides: gpsd'?

Thanks,

_Gilles.

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