Bug#264566: ITP: grass5.7 -- GRASS GIS Development Version
Hi Andreas,
Sorry, the wrong email snuck in when I submitted the
ITP bug. I've CCd debian@adkgis.org, which is my
preferred address.
--- Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> wrote:
...
> > * Package name : grass5.7
> > Version : 5.7.0
> Do you think that we need two different versions of
> GRASS in Debian?
The motivation for this is bug #248649 [1]. I package
qgis which has a plugin for reading and editing grass
layers. This plugin depends on gdal support for grass
written by Radim Blazek. I have verified with Radim
that his patches will only work with grass 5.7's newly
provided libraries.
Also, I believe 5.7 fixes bug #234275 [2]. I am not a
heavy grass user, but it is my impression that 5.0 is
getting old and that 5.7 is greatly improved. The
roadmap [3] for grass is kind of confusing, but it
seems reasonable to package 5.0.x, 5.3, and 5.7 to
provide various levels of stability vs. currentness.
It appears that grass 5.0.x and 5.7 can coexist on the
system, so that should not be a problem.
I sent a message to the grass packager (Federico Di
Gregorio <fog@debian.org>) about a week ago asking
about all this and have received no response. There is
also a wishlist bug for grass 5.3 (261483 [4]) that
has received no response. I hope that he will have had
sufficient time to raise objections before I get the
package squared away.
Regards,
Steve Halasz
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/248649
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/234275
[3] http://grass.itc.it/roadmap.html
[4] http://bugs.debian.org/261483
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