Re: [Pkg-grass-general] postgis on debian
hi friends,
debianizing a software product is to support both debian users and the
product's community.
linux users of postgis are lot of them debian users, of sarge, sid and
woody. for those distributions, postgresql is 7.2, and 7.4. experimental
debian introduces pg 8.0 now, that is still considered buggy.
of course, debian users may install software out of their distribution,
so i could not rely on the users having only the distribution specific
postgresql.
so, as postgis does currently support postgresql 7.2 to 8.0, and the
postgis code varies with the different postgresql versions, i did
include the configuration files from the postgresql debian source
packages, to be automatically detected when building postgis. of course,
i could have manually reduced the size of the files, but i wanted to
make adding a new postgresql version, and changing one's contents
thereof, to be as easy as possible.
regarding libpgjava, i will have to make a libpostgisjava pakage, alike.
and i have also to try to make the sarge kaffe classlib for woody, in
order to make libpostgisjava functional there, too. wolfgang, your input
will be most appreciated here!
best regards,
alex
On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 13:53 +0100, Wolfgang Baer wrote:
> 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
>
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