[Fwd: [Fwd: Re: [Pkg-grass-general] postgis on debian]]
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> From: alex bodnaru <alex@alex3>
> To: pkg-grass-general <pkg-grass-general@lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Subject: [Fwd: Re: [Pkg-grass-general] postgis on debian]
> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 19:51:41 +0200
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> > From: alex bodnaru <alex@alex3>
> > To: Wolfgang Baer <WBaer@gmx.de>
> > Cc: pkg-grass-general@lists.alioth.debian.org, PostGIS Development
> > Discussion <postgis-devel@postgis.refractions.net>
> > Subject: Re: [Pkg-grass-general] postgis on debian
> > Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 03:23:45 +0200
> > 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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