Re: RFS: QGIS

[Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>]

Hi Steve,

> I'm looking for a sponsor for QGIS. QGIS is a geographic data viewer
> capable of displaying shapefiles. It supports feature identification and
> display of attribute tables. It also supports display of georeferenced
> raster images and Digital Elevation Models. The web site for QGIS is
> http://qgis.sourceforge.net/ .

As i'm already sponsoring gdal, i'll have a look at it.

> deb http://bullhorn.org/debian unstable main
> deb-src http://bullhorn.org/debian unstable main

Just two comments:

You created a native Debian package for QGIS. In October, there was a
short discussion in d-mentors about the gdal package from Silke Reimer
whether to use native packages or not (see
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2003/debian-mentors-200310/msg00176.html
). Please have a second thought whether to use a native package or not.

My first attempt to build on Alpha failed:

qtiffio.cpp:22:20: tiffio.h: No such file or directory

Apparently, the build depends are not sufficient (probably libtiff3g-dev
is missing). You can avoid problems like this by trying to build your
package using pbuilder in a clean chroot environment.

Thanks,
--jochen