[postgis-users] PostGIS upgrade

[Brent Wood]

--- strk at refractions.net wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 01:14:27PM +0100, Markus Schaber wrote:
> > Hi, Strk,
> > 
> > On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 10:10:19 +0100
> > strk at refractions.net wrote:
> > 
> > > Automatically download and install is not a good idea (IMHO)
> > > Users not willing to read the docs should get a packaged version
> > > (.rpm or .deb or whatever).
> > 
> > Btw, is there any progress in having official Debian PostGIS packages?
> 

This was from the Debian list a couple of months back. Don't know if you were
aware of it?

Brent Wood

> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 10:47:51 +0200
> From: "Francesco P. Lovergine" <frankie at debian.org>
> To: Debian Developers Announces 
> <debian-devel-announces at lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Introducing the DebianGis subproject
>
>
> DebianGis is a new sub-project recently launched thanks to the efforts 
> of a
> group of Debian developers and users. The goal of DebianGis is to 
> create a
> Custom Debian Distribution [1] oriented to serious Geographical 
> Information
> Systems (GIS) users and applications [2].
>
> Debian already includes several GIS oriented programs and libraries, 
> thus
> our first aim is to coordinate development efforts. In addition, at 
> this
> stage we wish to collect as much information as possible on users' 
> needs
> and suggestions.
>
> In the future we would broaden the project to include other Earth 
> Observation
> software categories in order to create the first all Free Software [3]
> distribution dedicated to Remote Sensing, Earth Observation, and 
> Geographical
> Information Systems.
>
> Of course, all people interested are invited to join us. We are 
> currently
> using the pkg-grass project site on Alioth [4] to provide a mailing 
> list [5]
> and wiki [6].
>
> Stay tuned, more novelties would come as soon as possible...
>
> *References:
>
> [1] http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?CustomDebian
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis
> [3] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
> [4] https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-grass/
> [5] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grass-general
> [6] http://pkg-grass.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl
>
> -- 
> The DebianGis Team
>
>
>
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