Re: [DebianGIS] sources.list in Ubuntu
I agree with Francesco that it is most effective to
base all development of the DebianGIS team on Debian
distributions. We would be greatly slowed by attempts
to develop GIS packages for other distros; keeping
track of bugs and patches would get complicated.
That said, There is growing interest in Ubuntu on many
fronts. My personal interest in in the Ubuntu Breezy
release. I am creating a "sync" of debianGIS for
Breezy. Breezy offers stable versions of postgresql
7.4 and 8.0. This is something that debian Stable does
not have. For now, Breezy is by far the best option
for postgis on postgresql 8.0.
My vision is this: We develop all GIS packages for
debian unstable. Bugs and patches will be made for
debian only. When we feel that there are stable
enough packages in the debianGIS repository, it would
be easy enough to "sync" debianGIS packages from
source to the various Ubuntu Distros. Willing groups
could set up testing repositories and work to
integrate the Ubuntu packages into universe.
I have been able to sync GDAL, mapserver, and postgis
so far. It was not difficult.
Just my thoughts.
Jon
--- "Francesco P. Lovergine" <frankie@debian.org>
wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 01:53:37PM -0500, Neil Best
> wrote:
> > Hello, all. I am running Ubuntu, Warty for now --
> lots of broken
> > packages in Breezy when I pointed to it yesterday.
> I gather from the
> > discussions here that folks are relying on Sid to
> satisfy dependencies,
> > but when I add it to my sources 'apt-get update'
> hangs. What are Ubuntu
> > users doing to take advantage of the fine work of
> the DebianGIS crowd?
> > I was trying to install qgis as a test case; maybe
> it's a bad test
> > because of the state of flux that it's in.
> Eventually I want the whole
> > suite -- GRASS, Mapserver, etc. Thanks for your
> comments.
> >
>
> Sorry, but this is _debian_ gis, not _ubuntu_ gis. I
> think currently
> it's quite difficult having binary compatibility on
> many packages
> among the two distros. We have occasional problems
> due to various
> transitions in sid also. The best thing we can do is
> continuing
> the development for sid (and etch) and backporting
> important
> packages to sarge (or whatever debian-based).
> Personally, I'm
> doing best efforts to maintain back-compatibility
> whenever
> possible and the same for other people.
>
>
> --
> Francesco P. Lovergine
>
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