[DebianGIS] Re: Broken packages

[alex bodnaru <alexbodn@012.net.il>]

hi blair,

thanks for your prompt considerations.

to the point answers follow inline:

Blair Zajac wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> Thanks for working on this.
> 
> I found a couple of things when I tried to port this to Postgis 1.1.1 on
> Breezy.
> 
> 1) Why isn't the postgis_1.1.0.orig.tar.gz just a copy of the original,
> but renamed:
> 
> http://postgis.refractions.net/download/postgis-1.1.0.tar.gz
> 
> I ended up doing a diff between this one and yours just to see that the
> only difference is that the directory postgis-1.1.0 was renamed to
> postgis-1.1.0.orig.  I like to distribute the original tarballs if
> possible, so that the MD5 sum is identical and people don't have to
> wonder what the differences are, so they can just look in the
> debian/patches directory.

this is due to my previous misunderstanding of dpkg-source. fixed already.
> 
> 2) The debian/changelog file says
> 
>     may be made automatically by calling 'debian/rules maintainer-config'
> 
> but the target's name is maintainer-configure, so it should read as:
> 
>     may be made automatically by calling 'debian/rules
> maintainer-configure'
> 
fixed changelog, thanks.

> 3) Also, there's no Build-Depends upon libgeos-dev, otherwise without it
> installed, you'll get this errror:
> 
it runs faster without libgeos! just kidding, thans.

> checking for stdint.h... yes
> checking for unistd.h... yes
> checking iconv.h usability... yes
> checking iconv.h presence... yes
> checking for iconv.h... yes
> checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking for pg_config... /usr/bin/pg_config
> checking for geos-config... no
> ...
> ...
> ...
> make[1]: Entering directory
> `/var/rdiff-backups/blair/packaging/postgis/alex/postgis-1.1.1'
> /usr/bin/make -C lwgeom
> make[2]: Entering directory CTO, OrcaWare Technologies
> `/var/rdiff-backups/blair/packaging/postgis/alex/postgis-1.1.1/lwgeom'
> sh ../geos_version.sh /usr > postgis_geos_version.h
> ../geos_version.sh: line 9: /usr/bin/geos-config: No such file or directory
> 
> I'm still working on getting it to work with 1.1.1.  The configure.in
> and configure patches break against it, which I've got fixed, but
> there's some other stuff going on.
> 
i know they changed upstream, and i'll take a look myself. your
configure* patch will be wellcome.

> Regards,
> Blair
> 

thanks,

alex