Comment 5 for bug 325288

Stefano wrote:
> Hamish: If you are a member of this team, any reason why you don't
> want to take over that package?

I certainly will help as I may, but I'm not really a DD so am still very much a student of the finer points.

help is hereby requested. the latest debian/ build rules are here, and not in that bad shape:
   http://gpsdrive.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gpsdrive/trunk/debian/

gpsdrive 2.11 is a quality release, and should be the current target for packaging efforts. (but trunk/ may have more up to date debian/ packaging rules which should at least be looked at..)

if interested, please contact on the DebianGIS and GpsDrive mailing lists. you will be most incredibly welcome, as this package has been way too long without an active ubuntu/debian maintainer.

> It looks like it doesn't need an overhaul, just a QA upload.

It needs a minor overhaul. More than a quick tweak, much less than starting from scratch.
Or, not pedantically lintian clean, but perhaps good 'nuf for Ubuntu.

thanks,
Hamish
GpsDrive & DebianGIS dev teams

ps- I have made unoffical .debs of a modern GpsDrive for Karmic and Lucid and put them up at:
   http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/data/gpsdrive/

I've got amd64 packages to Lucid somewhere as well, if there is demand I can post them too.