[postgis-users] Re: Cancelled Jeff Waugh Talk - GIS in Ubuntu

[Blair Zajac]

Martin Pitt wrote:
>>Alex Bodnaru <alexbodn at 012.net.il>  - is debian packager for PostGis
> 
> He contacted me a week ago, and we discussed about some improvements
> in the postgresql packaging. Some of his suggestions are now
> implemented in the current development version.

So when you commit a new version, it goes into the Debian tree and then Ubuntu 
picks it up?  Is that the ordering of events?

>>Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com> - has made Breezy packages for both 
>>Postgresql 8.1 and PostGis
> 
> Hm, using postgresql 8.1 on Breezy is just a matter of building the
> current dapper/sid package in a Breezy system (I already provide Sarge
> backports, which work without a problem) and using the current
> postgresql-common package. Blair, did you change anything in the
> package that should go into the official packages?

No, I just dropped two patches into the package, one to populate 
contrib/postgis-1.0.4 and one to edit contrib/Makefile to build it.

> It would be interesting to discuss how packages like postgis can be
> tied smoothly and efficiently into the postgresql-common architecture.
> I'm always open for ideas about this.

Alex has a pretty good postgis build, but there's one or two outstanding issues 
I'm waiting to hear back from Alex on.

I'm thinking we should get those points resolved and then we can put them up for 
you to take a look at for inclusion into Debian/Ubuntu.

Regards,
Blair