[DebianGIS] Re: postgis deb

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Alex Bodnaru]
> 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.

There are systems around to handle upstream source changes with files
within the debian/ directory.  I use dpatch most of the time myself,
storing the patches in debian/patches/, and having the applied in
sequence at build time.  I recommend a similar system for postgis.

> 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.

This is not really a problem, as one normally add new files with new
diffs, and this works just fine with a source repository like CVS and
SVN.

See the debiangis CVS, directory mapserver/debian/patches/ for an
example of such system.

Friendly,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen