Re: Please do not forget to mention Debian GIS in release notes [was: Bug#782695: release-notes: please add news from Debian Med to release notes]
Hi Andreas,
On 04/19/2015 02:47 PM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> just to get on your nerves a bit: I'd *really* consider it very
> important that Debian GIS shows up in the release notes. Otherwise
> you will loose a singular chance to propagate the project in the
> news which could bring several new developers and users.
>
> Thanks for considering
>
> Andreas.
>
> PS: I'd even volunteer to write a draft but we need to be really
> quick.
I think this train has passed, and I don't consider that a problem.
But if you insist on including Debian GIS in the release notes I've
summarized the changes for jessie below which you can use for your draft.
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 02:58:27PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> I would mention something in the lines
>>
>> fruitful cooperation with UbuntuGIS has shown first results
>>
>> Just rememeber that Debian release notes have a wide user coverage and
>> it would not harm if this cooperation is mentioned here to let people
>> know.
During the jessie development cycle many changes from UbuntuGIS were
incorporated (back) into Debian GIS.
Collaboration with UbuntuGIS and OSGeo-Live projects was improved,
resulting in new packages and contributors.
Where possible an effort will be made to provide backports for new
upstream releases of non-library packages.
New in Debian GIS:
* geolinks 0.0.1
* MapCache 1.2.1
* mapnik-vector-tile 0.5.1
* Meteorological data Ingest-Processing Package (mipp) 0.9.1
* osmctools 0.3
* OWSlib 0.8.10
* pg_compirator 2.2.5
* pgRouting 2.0.0
* pktools 2.5.3
* Pycoast 0.5.2
* pykdtree 0.2
* pyorbital 0.3.2
* Pyresample 1.1.0
* QMapShack 0.6.0
* ReadOSM 1.0.0b
* rel2gpx 0.27
* SAGA 2.1.2
* SpatiaLite GUI 1.7.1
* TinyOWS 1.1.0 (non-free, amd64 only)
Software updates:
* GDAL updated to 1.10.1
* GEOS updated to 3.4.2
* GRASS updated to 6.4.4
* HDF5 updated to 1.8.13
* GeoTIFF updated to 1.4.0
* libLAS updated to 1.8.0
* Mapnik updated to 2.2.0
* MapServer updated to 6.4.1
* osgEarth updated to 2.5
* osm2pgsql updated to 0.86.0
* osmosis updated to 0.43.1
* OSSIM updated to 1.8.16
* PostGIS updated to 2.1.4
* PROJ.4 updated to 4.8.0
* PySHP updated to 1.2.1
* QGIS updated to 2.4.0
* QLandkarteGT updated to 1.7.7
* ShapeLib updated to 1.3.0
* SpatialIndex updated to 1.8.1
* SpatiaLite updated to 4.1.1
* TerraLib updated to 4.3.0
Important changes:
* creepy has been removed due to an unresolved release critical bug.
(#770591)
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