[Fwd: Re: [Pkg-grass-general] postgis on debian]
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> From: Wolfgang Baer <WBaer@gmx.de>
> To: pkg-grass-general@lists.alioth.debian.org
> Subject: Re: [Pkg-grass-general] postgis on debian
> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 13:53:24 +0100
> 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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