[DebianGIS] Lets add a GIS workstation task to etch?

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

I believe it is a good idea to add a GIS Workstation task to etch.  To
do that, we need to submit a wishlist bug against the tasksel package,
and specify which packages should be part of this task.  Here is a
draft:

I believe the task should focus on "end-user" applications (aka GUI
and console tools), and not list libraries.  I'm not sure if I
succeeded in listing all such GIS-related packages.  Please have a
look.  If we add such task, all users of etch will have the option of
running tasksel and selecting 'GIS Workstation' to get all these nice
tools.  And it will also make it easier for us to make a GIS
Workstation CD based on etch as a custom debian distribution.

CC to Joey Hess, to give him a heads-up, and hopefully get some useful
feedback on how good our chances to get it included in etch are. :)

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Task: gis-workstation
Relevance: 6
Section: user
Description: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) workstation
 This task sets up your system to be a GIS workstation to process and
 make maps.
Key:
 grass
 qgis
 qgis-plugin-grass
Packages: task-fields
Packages-list:
 thuban
 mapserver
 gmt
 gpsbabel
 gpx2shp
 gpsd
 gpsdrive
 gpsman
 openjump
 earth3d
 openscenegraph
 proj
 postgis
 opencv
 kflog
 grace6
 gpstrans
 geoip
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Friendly,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen