[Pkg-grass-general] Coming Postgis 1.0 release

[Wolfgang Baer <wbaer@gmx.de>]

Hi,

There is now a first release candidate of the 1.0 release out. This 
release changes the internal storage and is not backwards compatible 
with older releases.

So the question is what do we want to include in debian gis in the long 
term. Will we provide two postgis releases side by side ?

- An "old" postgis release (0.9.1) which is already packaged and the
most programs can work with

- An "new" postgis 1.0 release

As I understand the change related programs like QGIS can not work
with the 1.0 release without changes. Does anybody know more about that, 
or has made some experiments ?

The only thing I know for sure is that the java interface changes 
completely between the 0.9.1 and 1.0 release. So we cannot have one 
postgis java library which supports both releases.


Regards,

Wolfgang