Re: [DebianGIS] qgis removal
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 08:21:01PM +1200, Hamish wrote:
>
> I think we can re-upload the existing 0.9.1 package to experimental for
> folks who really need it or want to help test.
>
You think bad, it would be rejected soon by ftp-masters.
Package needs to be lintian clean before any re-submission in the archive
as experimental or in main. I know Joerg and co sufficiently to
know that trying to do something different is perfectly silly.
Currently a couple of people from gfoss-it volunteered for cleaning
the main issues.
>
> Low hanging fruit we can quickly pluck are:
> [ http://bugs.debian.org/474604 ]
>
> * fixes so it compiles cleanly with gcc 4.3 (preferably coordinated with
> upstream and resolved with the upcoming release of 0.9.2; is anyone here
> from QGIS upstream or know the status?)
>
Another aspect is that Qgis has _periodically_ issues with g++ 4.3
and that is not more acceptable. Package needs to be checked
against gcc 4.3 every time before uploading. Apparently it seems
upstream has not used 4.3 at the time of 0.9.1 and before
and that causes some problems. I don't know what they are doing
for 0.9.2.
> * missing man pages (create basic versions from 'qgis --help', etc)
> * missing copyright files (add as needed)
>
IMHO qgis libraries need to be dropped and almost for sure moved
into a private area. I think Qgis is quite far from having something
people could consider as a stable API for third parties, so
it is pointless having a libqgis1 and libqgis1-dev package.
That would solve all soname issues periodically introduced into Qgis
because they would be considered _private_.
Also I suspect we would have big issues for supporting a qgis-python
binding because of that, so better dropping at this stage the whole
support. People should stay on their own about that, because
it is probably risky.
>
> I have filed a meta-bug for this with QGIS,
> http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1028
>
>
> see also unofficial package repo at:
> deb http://debian.gfoss.it/ lenny main
>
Yes, nicco also proposed himself for help.
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Francesco P. Lovergine
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