[GRASS-dev] grass70 package name

Sebastiaan Couwenberg sebastic at xs4all.nl
Fri Feb 13 10:03:35 PST 2015


Hi,

On 02/13/2015 06:34 PM, Martin Landa wrote:
> 2015-02-13 18:18 GMT+01:00 Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl>:
>> The choice between separate source packages or not was also discussed on
>> the Debian GIS list, see the thread starting at:
>>
>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-gis/2015/01/msg00004.html
>>
>> I think it makes sense for GRASS upstream to use separate source
>> packages to allow co-installation, but this makes less sense for the
>> official Debian package.
> 
> OK, thanks for explanation (btw, I have subscribed myself to this ML).

In the mean time I had also subscribed to grass-dev@ :)

>> We mostly need to consider the versions for the different package
>> lineages to allow co-existence of the different package sources.
> 
> So do you suggest to apply [1,2] to GRASS source code (trunk and relbr70)?

The appstream.patch is distribution specific, so I don't think you need
to merge it in GRASS upstream.

The Keywords from the desktop.patch should be merged upstream, but the
Exec & Icon changes are distribution specific.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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