[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Matt Perry's post on Ubuntu/GIS has gained a lot of attention

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Jachym and all,

Jachym Cepicky wrote:
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> the idea is nice, however, the organization never makes the packages -
> the people always do. 

Very true.

> imho, unless you do not want Ubuntu to became *the* osgeo distribution,
> you must not ignore other distributions. 

True, one must not ignore other distributions. our group hopes to
continue whatever little that we can do on the Mandriva distribution.

> why should e.g. frankie (the grass debian package maintainer - many
> thanks!) work under osgeo head, 

Why not? my sincere thanks to Frankie too.

> if he did so till now as official Debian
> maintainer?  I can not of course speak for him. 

Can't speak for him either.

> well, just few thoughts of mine

Regards

Venka