[GRASS-dev] DebianGIS and GRASS6.3

Tue May 13 09:02:59 EDT 2008

Moritz,

are you communicating with the debianGIS packaging team?
 From reading the message below I was not sure what goes into the  
package -
it looks like GRASS6.2 and maybe GRASS6.3?
It would be a pitty if it had only GRASS6.2 (does anybody on this  
list even
remember how GRASS6.2 looks like?) because GRASS6.3 is so much better.
Is there any way that we can make sure that GRASS6.3 gets into the  
package?

Also along the same line - would it be appropriate to encourage  
people to
download GRASS6.3 maybe by adding the following to the header of
the downloads table:

GRASS6.2.3 (...), please try GRASS6.3 technology preview - it is  
stable and much better

As it is presented now, getting GRASS6.3 is sort of discouraging

Helena

On May 8, 2008, at 1:49 PM, Moritz Lennert wrote:

> I have finally found the time to create .deb packages of 6.3.0 for  
> Ubuntu Hardy Heron.
>
> They are available at
> http://geog-pc40.ulb.ac.be/grass/ubuntu/6.3.0/
>
> Jachym, feel free to put them on your server if this is useful.
>
> Moritz
>
>
------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Francesco P. Lovergine <frankie at debian.org>
To: pkg-grass-general at lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject: [DebianGIS] Freezing is not so far in the future, aka Where 1.0
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 20:45:19 +0200

Hi all

This message is a very informal and incomplete report about
our Status of the Map.

I would remind that package freezing is roughly expected in mid July.

People is warmly invited to think ASAP what upstream versions should  
go into
Lenny. Two months are not a so long time in the future and please
consider that our packages have a not so large user base for testing.
Many packages also have a quite long dependencies chain which could
slow down britney job. So be very careful and defensive in uploading
new versions.

There will be the possibility of uploading GDAL 1.5.2 (probably),  
hdf5 1.6.7 and
hdf4 4.2r1 for lenny. IMHO grass is already frozen (but for a probable
6.3.0 preview version to be uploaded in parallel with the stable
release). It would be nice to know if we have already to consider
frozen PostGis and Mapserver, but for some minor adjustment.
If people had to point patches for known upstream issues it would
be great.

A big lack is Qgis which requires more love of what I'm
able to dedicate. Some volunteers headed to manage it better
for a 0.10.0 release, but it's still missing. About that, consider
that the ftpmasters' job will be specifically accurate, so
a damn good job need to be done to solve its main issues.

I worked a bit on uDig and gvSig: they both at the same time require
too much work in order to have them properly packaged (they lacks a
proper multi-user installer for instance and there are also a few
license issue to be considered), and they are also easily
installable as they are by the casual user starting from the upstream
provided installers, so probably they should not be on the top
of our todo lists.

Saga Gis is easily buildable, but I had big problems in using it
also for working with quite easy shape and geotiff files.
It seems quite far from being a mature product. I would add
that among interesting experimental stuff, as already done with Ossim
which at least starts to have a shape. But still not ready for main.

I would hope other people would summarize status of OSM-related
packages.

Finally, we are still lacking human resources. Which is not a news
for this project, but I can see the same problems in other
teams, such as the Tcl/Tk group, sigh. We are in a bit better status
than one year ago anyway. I would prefer that some folks who
anyway do some packaging efforts out there in the GIS world would
collaborate here. But hey, we are in a free world and I know
that Debian standars are quite high and demanding ...

Happy gis-hacking to all

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>
> On 25/04/08 20:54, Moritz Lennert wrote:
>> On 23/04/08 16:13, Carlos "Guâno" Grohmann wrote:
>>> Eric,
>>>
>>> to create the .deb files you can use checkinstall. In the end of the
>>> compiling process, instead of "make install" you do a "checkinstall"
>>> and create the deb file (or rpm, or other).
>> Yes, that is an intermediate solution, but I'd rather see  
>> real .deb packages, i.e. with all the debian-related patches  
>> included in terms of paths and other issues.
>> It shouldn't be too hard since everything exists in the DebianGIS  
>> repository, it just takes a bit of time to do it...and I haven't  
>> found the time, yet.
>> Moritz
>>>
>>> cheers
>>>
>>> Carlos
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Patton, Eric  
>>> <epatton at nrcan.gc.ca> wrote:
>>>> What is involved in creating a package? I'll be updating to  
>>>> Heron sometime within
>>>>  the next week. All my proj/gdal/python stuff is up-to-date. Is  
>>>> it just a matter of
>>>>  creating 'make bindist', and placing the tarfile on an ftp site?
>>>>
>>>>  ~ Eric.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  -----Original Message-----
>>>>  From: grass-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org on behalf of Jachym  
>>>> Cepicky
>>>>  Sent: Wed 4/23/2008 10:45 AM
>>>>  To: Moritz Lennert
>>>>  Cc: grass-dev
>>>>  Subject: [GRASS-dev] Re: GRASS et al packages for Hardy Heron ?
>>>>
>>>>  HI Moritz,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  Moritz Lennert píse v Út 22. 04. 2008 v 10:03 +0200:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hello Jachym,
>>>>  >
>>>>  > I just learned last night that the computers I will use for a  
>>>> training
>>>>  > course on FOSS-GIS are running Hardy Heron and Gutsy Gibbon  
>>>> as I was
>>>>  > told before.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  > Are you planning to update your packages to Hardy Heron in
>>>>  > a very near future ?
>>>>
>>>>  Depends on the definition of "near". It will probably take me  
>>>> another
>>>>  month: I have tons of work now and I would like to try out amd64
>>>>  version.
>>>>
>>>>  > Does someone else have packages of GRASS + QGIS +
>>>>  > Dependencies for that platform ?
>>>>
>>>>  Afaik no :-(
>>>>
>>>>  >
>>>>  > Moritz
>>>>
>>>>  Sorry,
>>>>
>>>>  Jachym
>>>>
>>>>  --
>>>>  Jachym Cepicky
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>>>>  URL: http://les-ejk.cz
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