Hi, On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 07:57:01PM +0200, alex bodnaru wrote: > hi, > > i am increasingly convinced that the debian spirit should be better > understood: > > as main debian is striving to a rock stable environment, the satelite > debian projects, as debian gis, should provide state of the specific art > packages, all suitable for stable, too. > > in my opinion, main debian should contain only really generic tools and > libraries, to make it hard for a debian subproject to conflict with. I agree. Specific packages should be contained in subpackages. Custom debian distributions (CDD) seem to be a good solution to me. In my opinion it would be nice to have a CDD called debian-gis and perhaps debian-gis-server, debian-gis-desktop, debian-gis-gps etc. Those CDDs could be released much more often than the core debian to respond to the needs of GIS users. Skolelinux is a good example for that. Greetings, Silke > > repositories with major packages upgraded should be called > testing/unstable/experimental. > > generic packages from testing/unstable/experimental should get > backported to stable all the time. > > at the same time, a database of all packages and file names should be > maintained, to avoid duplicates. > > specific conflicts between packages may possibly raise at any level when > users use software from several subprojects, and should be solved by > specific maintainers. > > alex -- Intevation GmbH Georgstrasse 4 49074 Osnabrück, Germany http://intevation.de http://intevation.de/~silke FreeGIS.org http://freegis.org/
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