Hi Alex,
after a few weeks of intense real life, I've had some time free to
check the postgis package.
After trying out your package, I came to the conclusion that your
debian/rules is rather complex and we have to simplify the build process
in order to have an approval from ftp-masters.
For this reason, I tried to package postgis from scratch [1]. You can
download the simplified package here [2]. I hope that starting from a
clean package, we can reach the minimum level required from ftp-masters
for the approval.
My package is very different from yours, but it is quite normal if you
consider that I've started from scratch. Here there is a quick list of
things I've changed:
* renamed binary packages to postgresql-postgis-{7.4,8.1}
* removed support for postgresql-8.0, etch won't ship it
* removed several binary packages (we just need one jdbc package and
no utils, examples and doc for the moment)
* moved documentation to postgis-common
* easy and linear debian/rules
* team maintainership, this is the way to go (tm).
* other small things.
So, could you please check the package and give me a list of things
that you would change? My goal is to modify this package adding *some*
of the features you have in your package, but not all (eg.
debian/control autogeneration is not good for Debian).
As you can see, I've added the pkg-grass list in Cc; maybe somebedy
there can give us feedback on the package and its missing features.
Thanks,
[1] My intent wasn't to trash out your work, just to have a clean
and easy to modify start point.
[2] http://peolpe.debian.org/~kobold/postgis/
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Proud Debian GNU/Linux developer, admin and user. : :' :
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