[Ubuntu] Re: [Live-demo] PostGIS / Postgres on the Live DVD

[Alan Boudreault]

Is there any volunteer to take care of PostGIS in UbuntuGIS ? I guess that 
postgis 1.4 will only work in Karmic since postgresql 8.4 has been introduced 
in this release ?

Alan

On January 15, 2010 12:51:13 am Hamish wrote:
> Alex wrote:
> > I see the postgis 1.4 packages in Debian Sid, could you
> > take lead on seeing if these will work on Ubuntu 9.10. It
> > would be easy enough for us to copy them to UbuntuGIS and
> > make minor tweaks if necessary.
> > http://packages.debian.org/sid/postgresql-8.4-postgis
> > http://packages.debian.org/sid/postgis
> 
> this is all that it takes... and all that it ever took. 
> (a patch to properly resolve the overlapping file conflicts
> when 1.4 was installed manually over the top of 1.3 would
> have been considered too)
> 
> 
> Yes, PostGIS 1.4 has been in debian/sid for about a month (once
> again thanks to Francesco). The only thing keeping it out of
> debian/testing is that the mips autobuilders are stalled.
> 
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/postgis.html
> 
> 
> Moreover, Ubuntu only cares to see that the package has built
> successfully on sid for i386 and amd64, so in fact it has
> already filtered down into Lucid:
> 
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=postgis
> 
> 
> I see no reason why it could not easily be rebuilt from there
> for karmic and join UbuntuGIS's ppa.launchpad repo. You just
> have to convince/bribe one of the good people at UbuntuGIS to
> do it.  (The sooner the better)
> 
> Brian wrote:
> > yet somehow, the technology is a year behind..
> 
> welcome to the wonderful world of Debian/stable, where the
> technology has already had a year's worth of QA done on it.
> 
> > 'freeze'
> 
> note that feature-freeze means us all deciding what to put in,
> not that everything is expected to be working 100% by that date.
> 
> 
> 
> regards,
> Hamish
> 
> 
> 
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