Re: [DebianGIS] DebianGis and DebianScience/Geography
I didn't send the previous posting to the debian-gis list. Apologies -
here it is again.
Chris Walker <chrisw@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> writes:
>
> > On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Hamish wrote:
> >
> > > feel free to edit the wiki page; the geography meta-package is already
> > > listed:
>
> I still can't find a link to:
>
> http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/gis/tasks/workstation.html - though there
> is a link to the
> http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=education-geography
> metapackage [1].
>
>
> > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis/PackageList
> > > (not all packages on that list are included in tasks)
>
> There appear to be 3 lists: education-geography,science-geography and
> gis-workstation (that nobody mentions, and I found from a previous
> mail by Andreas).
>
> I can see merit[2] in two - education-geography for schools, and one of
> science-geography or gis-workstation for researchers.
>
> >
> > Anybody cares to maintain the tasks files? Any reason for not touching the
> > dasks files for one year? Any help needed?
>
> Hamish suggested I edited the wiki - and it is possible I may find
> time to do that - but I certainly can't do it until I know what the
> wiki should say.
>
> The obvious solutions to me are:
>
> A) Do as is done for debian-med and have the science-geography task
> that depends on gis-workstation. In another mail, Andreas points to
> improvements that will allow #includes in metapackages in the not
> too distant future.
>
>
> B) Just use the science-geography task (possibly renamed) and
> i) Get the DebianScience wiki page to point at
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis
> or
> ii) Move the contents of DebianGis to DebianScience/Geography
>
> C) Something else.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> [1] Andreas, perhaps you should also add a link to the task pages to
> point to the corresponding metapackages.
>
> [2] I'm a physicist, not a geographer, so I may well have completely
> missed the point here.
>
>
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