[GRASS5] GRASS in Debian

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 09:45:37PM +0100, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> GRASS made the Weekly Debian News:
> http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2002/4/
> 
> 	Help with Packaging GRASS. 
> 
> 	A [39]question came up asking about the status of packaging
> 	GRASS. Federico Di Gregorio replied that he has [40]preliminary
> 	packages ready which are full of packaging errors and generate a
> 	single 25MB package. He asked for help with this effort; so if
> 	somebody wants to help, please contact Federico.
> 
>   39. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0201/msg01702.html
>   40. http://people.debian.org/~fog/
> 
> 
> Maybe some developer should give Federico a hand. I don't know if he
> know about this list.
> 
> One main argument to clarify the license of GRASS in 1999
> was that clearly making a Free Software project will booth the
> chances that it get packaged by distributions and attracts more developers.
> Both seems to be happening, though it takes some time.

Looking at
 http://people.debian.org/~fog/
shows that he is obviously using beta8... That's a long time ago.
Maybe he wants to try pre3 :-) ?

Good night,

 Markus