Hi folks A first release of etch backports is available in DebianGis archive. Testing is welcome proj 4.5 grass 6.2.1 gdal 1.4.0 gdal-grass 1.4.0 qgis 0.8.0 I will add mapserver ASAP. Arch is i386, but hopefully I will be able to build for amd64 too. If people will be sufficiently happy with the result, I would also move those packages to bpo for general use. -- Francesco P. Lovergine