Re: [DebianGIS] Re: PostGIS status
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 20:37 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Steve Halasz]
> > The postgresql maintainers rejected this suggestion a while ago. See:
> >
> > http://bugs.debian.org/242593
>
> This thread is about adding postgis into the debian package, which I
> too believe is a bad idea.
>
> My suggestion is to talk to the upstream developers of postgresql, and
> get postgis added there. If that happen, the debian postgresql
> maintainers will get the code and can enable it in debian.
>
I'm not sure how this is different from what is under discussion further
down in the bug:
On 2004-04-19 10:55 -0400, Steve Halasz wrote:
> Peter is right. I've tried it (sorry I didn't do this before) and it
> starts looking for other build files when it includes Makefile.global.
> Perhaps to create a postgis debian package it needs to be part of the
> postgresql source package.
No way :-) Some months ago I worked quite much to dissect pgeasy,
psqlodbc, plr and libpg-perl from the postgresql source package. For
two of them I wrote new build systems, two others worked with p-dev.
Merging different upstream sources in a single Debian source package
has been a hassle (wrong version numbers, the neccessity to rebuild
and upload a complete new set of packages for just a single change in
one auxillary package, inconformance to policy, bad manageability...)
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Whether they put it in the upstream source or debian adds it to the
source, the effect is the same I think in the end as far as these
manageability issues go.
Steve
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