Bug#264566: ITP: grass5.7 -- GRASS GIS Development Version

[Steve Halasz <debian@adkgis.org>]

> 
> > > So if I would be you I would proceed as follows:
> > >
> > >   - Change the ITP bug into a "new version available" bug against GRASS.
> > >   - Provide a patch which build a working GRASS package of version 5.7.
> >
> > Regarding the information that I gave about the different version I
> > would second this proposition. Another possibilty could be to update
> > grass 5.0 to grass 5.3 and to add a new package grass 5.7 but since
> > the raster stuff of grass 5.[0|3] is nearly the same as for grass
> > 5.7 this is not really necessary.
> The problem is that we IMHO do not have enough developers to maintain
> even one version of GRASS in the amount it would deserve.  So splitting
> forces into two versions would be a bad idea.  The information above
> IMHO supports my idea of updating the existin GRASS package and I would
> go the way I mentioned above.

You are right. I'll take these steps and offer help towards having a
single grass package at version 5.7.

Thanks,
Steve