[GRASS5] GRASS in Debian
Markus Neteler
neteler at itc.it
Thu Jan 24 20:13:15 EST 2002
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
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