Re: [DebianGIS] [Fwd: Re: Hijack or remove postgis]

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

hi stephen,

it would really be good on your side to check the package again, since
it has fixed a lot of issues, part of them from you.

thanks in advance,

alex

Stephen Frost wrote:
> * alex bodnaru (alexbodn@012.net.il) wrote:
> 
>>i wish to make a distinction between the postgis package currently in
>>sid, which is currently candidate to be removed (and i personally agree
>>on that), and the newer postgis package currently on debian-giswhich has
>>all comments fixed, and it's about to be re-proposed on new.
> 
> 
> Unless what's on Debian-GIS has changed recently, it's still got alot of
> issues.  I suppose I can go through and point them all out (such as
> including some of the scripts already in postgresql-common and having an
> obscene number of binary packages for a simple Postgres module) but,
> honestly, the packaging is just way more complex than it has any need to
> be.  It tries to do way too much and ends up not being very good at
> doing the basics and ends up being very fragile.
> 
> 	Thanks,
> 
> 		Stephen