Hi Roberto, Roberto Boati wrote:
Hi, sorry I missed the recent discussions on list. Well, I think it's good to get help for producing the best possible package for postgis. Days ago I was contacted by Alex and I informed him about DebianGIS and I offered to split efforts. Today I have time to inspect his recent package, but I noticed a new debian package (pgxs) in experimental that could also be useful for postgis package and a new postgresql 8.0. I'll discuss that with Alex, because probably we'll have to mantain postgis for two postgresql version for the next days, so efforts could increase. His package also provides support for the java bindings.
I had a look at the package from you both - I am not used to the C code packaging stuff - I make java packages :-) But some comments: - the java bindings have to be splitted out in an own source package Otherwise postgis has to be moved to contrib (libpgjava dependency) - I like the postgis_template.sh from Alex to make a postgis ready database - would be nice to see this in the official debian package. The main thing I saw at one look is that your package doesn't need any postgresql source except the postgresql-dev package. Alex included several postgresql src stuff into the debian dir - which makes the package diff really big. If this is not really needed I think this should be avoided. I don't know your priorities for postgis - but as I understand it, the postgresql 8.0 stuff in experimental is not a sarge target. So if you both will get a 1.0 postgis package into sarge you only have to support the 7.4 postgresql version in sarge/unstable. Regards, Wolfgang