* alex bodnaru (alexbodn@012.net.il) wrote: > the requirements from joerg of having a static control file, and your > proposition to have only one postgis-utils have been full filled. Right, you dealt with a couple of specific complaints while missing the whole point that the packaging is overly complex and fragile. > the whole list is in the debian changelog. Is what is in the Debian-GIS CVS reposititory the most current? > you have recently promissed to review thew package again, so please do > it and be strait to the point in your criticism. Once it's clear what the most recent package is I'll be happy to go through it again. I did go through it recently with Frankie and pointed some things out to him but looks like I forgot to send my comments to the list too. Thanks, Stephen > Stephen Frost wrote: > > * 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, > >>> > >>> Stephe > > > > n > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pkg-grass-general mailing list > > Pkg-grass-general@lists.alioth.debian.org > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grass-general
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