[Ubuntu] UbuntuGIS State

[Julien Malik]

Hi Jérôme,

On 07/19/2013 03:44 PM, Jerome Villeneuve Larouche wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As most of you know, this summer with the help of Google Summer of 
> Code I've been updating and fixing packages in UbuntuGIS.

Thanks for the huge work !

>
> Currently, everything in Lucid, Precise, Quantal and Raring should be 
> updated and working so Unstable should be more "stable". There have 
> been a lot of changes in the last updates. Libgdal1 changed named and 
> is now Libgdal1h to fix a conflict with Geotiff, the version have been 
> added to the postgis packages (postgresql-9.1-postgis-2.0) and a new 
> packages has been added for all the scripts 
> (postgresql-9.1-postgis-2.0-scripts) and for SHP2PGSL gui, 
> postgis-gui. The libgdal-ecw-src package has been updated to be able 
> to compile the ECW plugin for GDAL using the brand new ECW 5.0 SDK and 
> it should still work with 3.3. Other than that QGIS in Precise and 
> Raring lost the Globe Plugin because of a Osgearth update.

And this does need upstream changes I suppose ?

> The other packages have simply been updated without change on how they 
> work.
>
> At this point in my project I'm looking for new packages to be added 
> to UbuntuGIS. We're already looking to add GeoNode and I've heard that 
> Geotools would be a nice addition to the repository. If there are any 
> other packages you would like to see added please propose them in the 
> mailing list.

ossim.

Currently Mohammed Rashad has uploaded a 1.8.14 package in ubuntugis 
unstable, but only for Raring.

Having it on the other distros like the rest (precise/quantal/raring, 
lucid if possible) would be nice.
Actually it is a dependency of otb so additionnally I could make the otb 
package saner after that (avoid building an external lib internally).

Julien