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Re: [DebianGIS] Current state of Geos and TileCache packages in Squeeze



On Nov 5, 2010, at 9:51 AM, ext Ivan Mincik wrote:

> On 11/05/2010 02:25 PM, christopher.schmidt@nokia.com wrote:
>> On Nov 5, 2010, at 9:10 AM, ext Ivan Mincik wrote:
>> 
>>> From DebianGIS Twitter: No new changes to frozen packages, waiting for
>>> release. No news, good news?
>>> Answer: For me it is bad news, Tilecache is going to be released broken.
>> No more broken than it has been ever since it went into Debian. There's a
>> new package, you can install it, or you can patch your local build, or you
>> can do whatever you want;
> Thanks Chris, We are building our own Debian packages since I have 
> discovered that problem (and we always will, because we are currently 
> using some local modifications).
> All I want to do is to make life easier for other Debian GIS users and 
> make Debian GIS quality higher.
> 
>> this behavior is not a regression, and fixing
>> non-regressions at this point in the release cycle seems silly.
> Even if patch is really simple and it is solving bug in frequently used 
> feature ?

Yes. If it wasn't important enough to get fixed 6 months ago, why is it 
important enough to fix now?

-- Chris

> 
> Anyway, I really appreciate all Your work.
> 
> -- 
> Ivan Mincik, Gista s.r.o.
> 




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