* alex bodnaru (alexbodn@012.net.il) wrote: > 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. Is what's in the Debian-GIS CVS repo any different from what you're proposing? That's what I looked at most recently and I havn't seen updates to it or anything suggesting there's a newer version than what's in there. Thanks, Stephen > 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
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