Re: About the non available suggested packages in task education-geography (#1118081)

Mike Gabriel <[email protected]> Thu, 20 Nov 2025 07:18:49 +0000

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Hi Frans,

On  Di 18 Nov 2025 22:07:33 CET, Frans Spiesschaert wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> In Debian Edu task geography two suggested packages are not available.
>
> 1. Package qlandkartegt has been replaced with qmapshack in Debian.
>    So this can easily updated in task geography.

I agree.

> 2. The second missing package is googleearth-package.
>    It is unclear to me what exactly it refers to.
>    I can't imagine that it refers to the google-earth-pro
>    package that is available from
> https://www.google.com/earth/about/versions/download-thank-you/?usagestats=1&linuxos=deb
>    because it is not at all DFSG-free.
>    More likely is that libgeo-googleearth-pluggable-perl is meant
>    by it. Package libgeo-googleearth-pluggable-perl
>    is still available in Debian.

Please drop googleearth. We don't want that anymore. It comes from a  
time when we were still friends with them. ;-)

> So, if you can agree with it, I could update
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian-edu/debian-edu/-/blob/master/tasks/geographyaccordingly. Doing so could close bug  
> #1118081.

Thanks, yes, I agree.

Mike
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