[GRASS-dev] status of grass6.4.4 debian packaging ?

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 10:53:25PM +1200, Hamish wrote:
> Moritz wrote:
> > Hamish and Frankie,
> >
> > What is the current status of packaging 6.4.4 for debian ?
> 
> Hi, sorry for the delay, I've been largely out of the office for the
> last couple of weeks.
> 
> 
> Mainly notes to Frankie, but may as well cc everyone to keep y'all in
> the loop:
> 
> 
> As far as updates needed to the packaging files it's just dch to bump
> the version number, and as far as I can tell the barscale_ui and
> svn-any-version patches have been incorporated and are no longer needed.
> 
> I've been building test packages since before release and AFAICT all
> seems well. We might need to keep an eye on the grass64.desktop file to
> make sure it gets included, but I think that's perhaps ok since the
> debian package does is not using 'make install'.
> 
> 
> The unpacked tarball lives in DebianGIS's git repo,
>   http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-grass/grass.git/
> 
> (with the notable addition of a debian/ dir)
> 
> generally for this I think it is better for one person to drive the car
> at a time, so I let Frankie do the tarball swap-out part and then do
> any of my extra edits to the debain/ dir once the foundation is in
> solidly place.
> 
> Others are threatening to commit over the top of our work on alioth
> right now and I'd rather pull in their patches than have to revert
> them, so we should perhaps get onto this soon... :-)
> 
> @Frankie, a dependency on libgdal-dev (>= 1.10.0-0~) snuck into the
> control file recently, can we just remove the versioning? AFAIK it's
> not actually needed and it makes backports to wheezy and the ubuntu
> LTSs that much more of a pain. Also if there isn't a hard API reason
> for needing the new version, explicitly stating it there can be
> deceptive since it indicates that there is. (even friendlier for
> backports: "libgdal-dev | libgdal1-dev,")
> 

Those changes can be easily added to allow easy backports.

> 
> > Anything we can do to help ?
> 
> The highly time critical thing right now is to get the new package in
> ubuntugis's unstable repo in the next few days so the osgeo live dvd
> can ship the right version for the Portland OR FOSS4G conference. We
> need to send the final to the printers soon. If it comes down to it, I
> can manually override with my self-built packages but I worry that the
> qgis 2.4 grass-plugin package would then need to be rebuilt too. So it's
> better to do it in the common ubuntugis PPA where those things will
> automatically resolve themselves. In general I feel it better to
> let the changes flow downstream from debian/unstable instead of letting
> things get the order of progression get mixed up downstream and all the
> splintering confusion and lost edits that go along with that, but the
> timing might necessitate an exception to that..
> Seb has a package, to avoid stepping on toes I think that might be the
> first upload to ubuntugis's PPA.
> 

I just have a very short personal time window to complete the grass upgrade, else
that and other things willbe done in the second half of August.


-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine