Re: [DebianGIS] Re: postgis deb
hello all,
i would be interested in source management of postgis and other packages
i'm maintaining, but we (me and postgis comaintainer, roberto boati),
postponed this as we failed to setup a cvs repository in the past.
the basic problem has been that of the files to be managed thereof:
while perfect packages would have only a debian subdirectory in the
upstream source package, other ones, like postgis, have a few slight
changes to the upstream files.
my unanswered question would be how to manage those diffs against
upstream files, as both solutions i imagine right now don't seem too good:
one way to go would be to store the diff as a file to manage. while this
would be a clean solution, the diffs against diffs would be unreadable
and thus unapplicable to multi developer cooperation.
the other way i think of would be to manage the entire upstream source,
together with the debian subdirectory. this solution might solve the
problem above, but it's a horrible waste of space and file duplication
against upstream.
the way we walked at the time trying to run that repository was to run
before commit a diff against upstream and save it under debian/patches,
thus excluding the debian subdir, and apply it after updating. thus we
may annalyze one the changes of the others in the debian subdir, while
part of the files in this subdir would be the upstream diffs, and their
(hopefully rare) changes would sadly look as diffs against diffs.
i would apreciate your guidance in order to set up a public repository
for this otherwise public project.
alex
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Alex Bodnaru]
>
>>thanks for your help and interest,
>
>
> One thing I am wondering about, is who of you are going to use the
> Debian GIS source repository to maintain the package. As far as I can
> see, the postgis directory in CVS repository
> :ext:cvs.alioth.debian.org:/cvsroot/pkg-grass is populated with build
> rules imported by Paul Wise 2006-03-22, and none of the people
> currently working on the postgis package seem to use this
> infrastructure. Are any of you planning to use the Debian GIS source
> repository?
>
> If not, I suspect we are better off in the long term by finding some
> maintainer of postgis which is willing to maintain the package as part
> of the Debian GIS group. The postgis package is obviously not very
> easy to maintain, and it is thus better to let all those interested in
> maintaining it share a common source repository and maintain it as far
> of the Debian GIS group.
>
> To get access to the Alioth repository, contact the project maintainer
> Francesco Lovergine and tell him your alioth user name. He is frankie
> on the #geo IRC channel on OFTC.
>
> I know I have asked for this to happen several times, so it saddens me
> to see that the postgis build rules in CVS are still outdated.
>
> Friendly,
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