JOSM needs version bump for 0.6 API

[Chris Bainbridge]

Binary package hint: josm

The OSM servers are scheduled to switch to 0.6 API today. At this point the 0.5 API will apparently stop working so JOSM needs updating to a recent version:

The linked Debian bug report suggests that >=r1529 is recommended. (I think this bug fix is the reason why: http://josm.openstreetmap.de/changeset/1529/trunk/src/org/openstreetmap/josm/data/osm/visitor/CreateOsmChangeVisitor.java ) Note this version is only 4 days old, but since the old version currently in Ubuntu will stop working, there isn't really any other option.

[Pobice (robert-pobice)]

Can confirm this bug:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Protocol_Version_0.6/Information#Mappers

[Pobice (robert-pobice)]

Debian new unstable package appears to work fine. I've run it on my jaunty machine and sucesfully updated OSM.

I've uploaded debians packages to OSM's PPA and they've built: https://launchpad.net/~openstreetmap/+archive/ppa

[Chris Bainbridge (chris-bainbridge)]

JOSM has been broken for a month now.

Is this bug going to be fixed? Or is JOSM not maintained anymore?

[Rory McCann (rorymcc)]

yeah this is still broken for me.

This is an import bug for this package, since JOSM is effectivly useless in it's current state.

[iamhimay (jaime-johnson2002)]

Why is a totally broken package in a release? Wasted my time thinking I was doing the right thing staying in-distro. This defeats the purpose of a distro.

[Stéphane Brunner (stephane-brunner)]

Fixed in karmic (or for jaunty in https://launchpad.net/~stephane-brunner/+archive/josm)

CU
Steph

[Chris Bainbridge (chris-bainbridge)]

The version you've uploaded to PPA (r1788) has known crash bugs which make josm unusable for certain tasks, e.g. http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/2936 which wasn't fixed until r1863 and http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/2782 which wasn't fixed until r1811. I am currently using r1815 which works ok, later revisions are probably better too.

[Stéphane Brunner (stephane-brunner)]

Hello !

Thanks for your comment, but I'm waiting for the next tested release and I hope that she hasn't major bug !

(it the second tested release with major bug :( )

CU
Stéphane