Re: [DebianGIS] Re: GIS tools missing in Debian? (Was: gdal)
hi,
i will do it, and dupload soon.
the problem is, postgis stable is not uploadable to debian main, since
testing+ have multicluster postgresql.
alex
Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 03:30:49PM +0100, F.Sluiter wrote:
>
>>>[F.Sluiter]
>>>
>>>>As a side effect of gis availability on debian, allthough I
>>>>protested vehemently, my production environment will be fedora
>>>
>>>[Petter]
>>>What GIS tools are you using, and which of them are missing in Debian?
>>>[Francesco]
>>>DO NOT USE TESTING OR SID if you need a stable environment.
>>
>>As Francesco points out,a production server has to, by definition, use
>>stable only.
>>
>>The decission was made a while ago, when not all gispackages were in stable yet.
>>It now would hang for example on postgresql (in stable still 7.4, we
>>need 8), postgis (still unavailable, allthough easily compiled) and
>>php5, two of which are beyond the control of this list.
>>
>
>
> Bad point:
>
> http://backports.org/package.php?search=postgres
> http://backports.org/package.php?search=php5
>
> Postgis can be easily backported too. We only need someone (but for me
> who already do that for grass) who would compile the whole chain
> in a sane sarge environment. And possibly support the whole up-to-date
> archive of useful programs in sarge. We also have a specific repository
> for that.
>
>
>>Debian also lacks an important feature of Fedora: you can not sent a
>>check somewhere to obtain a license. For that silly reason all
>>customers of our service provider (university compute center:
>>http://www.sara.nl/aboutsara/aboutsara_pr_eng.html) ask for Fedora,
>>and providing debian would cause extra work for them (for instance
>>maintaining several versions of backup solutions).
>>
>
>
> That's unavoidable. There is a long list of consultants and firms
> which provide debian-based services. See
> http://www.us.debian.org/consultants/
> They will be happy to accept your cheques :)
>
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