- Package:
- foxtrotgps
- Source:
- foxtrotgps
- Description:
- GTK+ mapping and GPS application
- Submitter:
- Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
- Date:
- 2025-08-13 09:31:05 UTC
- Severity:
- normal
Dear goxtrotgps maintainers, thanks for your work with this package. Today I installed foxtrotgps to analyce some GPX tracks. I tried to use the mouse menu: * right-click * route planification * load route from GPX (I used it in spanish, so I'm not sure if these options have this english translations). I select my GPX file in my system, and then nothing happens. I would expect something to happen: * an error message (if there was an error) * my route showing up in the map thanks, best regards.
Hello,
I looked into the code. I *think* the menu is used to load GPX files
with a route and the button on the right ("Load"-Button) loads a track.
I do have a gpx file with a track. The "load route"-Button is not
working, but the "Load"-Button is working.
Unfortunately, I do not have a route-file. What I did, I used a gpx file
with tracks and replaced it via "%s/trk/rte/g". Now, the menu-Button is
loading a "route".
I'm not a GPX expert, but maybe this is not a bug. Improvement could
be to display a warning, when the file doesn't provide a route.
I wouldn't bother looking at the FoxtrotGPS codebase, since it is GTK2 and there aren't any volunteers to fix that, it is likely to be removed from Debian within the trixie release cycle. There is a WIP branch to port it to GTK3 (which is already obsolete) but no-one with the time, skills and motivation to work on and finish the port. There are also much better map apps now, so it would be best to switch to them. https://bugs.debian.org/967347 https://code.launchpad.net/~pabs/foxtrotgps/gtk3
Dear submitter, as the package foxtrotgps has just been removed from the Debian archive unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1110862 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/. Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the earliest. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)