Re: [Pkg-grass-general] Re: DebianGis: Packaging postgis/geos
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 21:31:01 +0100 (CET), Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
wrote:
> Some comments about the package:
>
> - the package must build automatically. This means: either postgis can
> be compiled using the include files and libs provided by postgresql-dev.
> Or you need to create an combined package of both postgresql and
> postgis sources. You might use dbs for this purpose (the build system
> also used by postgresql).
Postgis needs the makefiles framework of postgresql, but postgresql-dev doesn't
provide all needed files.
I assumed that source package could relay on the presence of environment
variable PGSQL_SRC at least.
I dont like very much the idea to repackage a postgresql source for
postgis, so I'd
prefere try that as last resort.
> - libgeos-dev and proj are missing in the build deps. You might want to
> use pbuilder to check for complete build dependencies.
I was experimenting with pbuilder but I wasn't ready to use it when I submitted
the package to the list.
> - you ship empty /usr/lib/postgres/lib and /usr/lib/postgres/bin/
> directories. You should remove them from debian/dirs.
Ok. I wrote "postgres" instead of "postgresql", anyway I'm removing them.
(Isn't lintian supposed to notice that kind of errors?).
> - debian/copyright should include the actual copyright. This seems to be
> the following line:
>
> Copyright 2001-2003 Refractions Research Inc.
Ok.
> - it would be nice to have doc/html/postgis.html and the examples in the
> package.
Ok.
> Besides this, it looks Ok so far.
>
> Thanks,
> Jochen
Thank you, I found your suggestions very helpful.
I'll submit a new package when I find how to resolve the source problem.
Regards,
Roberto
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Roberto Boati <roberto.boati@gmail.com>
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