[postgis-devel] repository hosting

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 16-10-15 14:28, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 01:59:19PM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>> On 16-10-15 13:38, Sandro Santilli wrote:
>>> Thanks for your thoughts, and sorry for confusing you with some other
>>> packager (maybe it was debian packagers). I think it would be nice
>>> to have a PACKAGERS file in the repo with reference of who packages
>>> PostGIS for which system, very useful reference, it'd be (although I
>>> guess it'd be easy for it to end up out-of-sync).
>>
>> While it's good to know who packages your software, I don't think a
>> PACKAGERS file with it's tendency to become outdated is a good solution.
>> The package tracking systems of the distributions tend to list the
>> maintainers already, knowing where to find those is probably more helpful.
>>
>> I also don't want to listed as the package maintainer in the postgis
>> upstream sources because postgis.net/install spreads false information
>> ("The DebianGIS project has built PostGIS in the past, but is currently
>> not very up-to-date.").
> 
> Ouch! Webpages can obviously also become outdated...
> I guess a section in that page with links to info about
> packages for different operating systems would be much better.
> 
> Did you know postgis website was under SVN too ?
> It'd be great to receive a patch for that page:
> https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/browser/web/_content/pages/install.html

No, I wasn't aware that the website source was also maintained in SVN.

A patch to update the Debian GIS information is available in Trac:

https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/3334

The pgApt documentation looks like its needs an update too.

@Markus, please have a look at that and possibly provide a patch for
that too.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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