[Ubuntu] [SoC] UbuntuGIS Weekly Report 6

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Jerome,

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 02:53:48PM -0400, Jerome Villeneuve Larouche wrote:
> I also looked a Osmosis, another
> java app, I can make a .deb out of it, but I get some java exception
> even when built manually so I'm still looking into it.

Are you aware of

$ apt-cache policy osmosis
osmosis:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.40.1+ds1-7
  Version table:
     0.40.1+ds1-7 0
        501 file:/home/ftp/pub/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages
        501 http://http.debian.net/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages
         50 http://http.debian.net/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages

I admit thia is not the latest upstream version but the packaging work
should be done in principle.  Did you checked out

$ apt-cache showsrc osmosis | grep -e ^Vcs
Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-osm/osmosis.git
Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/pkg-osm/osmosis.git

or did you contacted

$ LANG=C apt-cache showsrc osmosis | grep -e Maintainer -e Uploader
Maintainer: Debian OpenStreetMap Team <pkg-osm-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Uploaders: Giovanni Mascellani <gio at debian.org> , David Paleino <dapal at debian.org>


> Today I also
> started looking into Marble to create a package using only QT
> instead of the big KDE libs.

I have not checked the Debian package whether it is using KDE libs but I
guess you are in contact with the maintainers.

> I also fixed a small bug in
> libgdal-ecw-src package in Lucid, Precise and Quantal.

I do not know this package but I'd recommend maintaining it in Debian GIS
team would be reasonable to let it migrate smoothly to any Ubuntu version
you need.  I repeat my offer to Sponsering of Blends[1] which should
smoothen your path to get packages uploaded to the Debian mirror if you
really want to.

> What do you plan to do next week?
>     I'll try to finish the Marble package and then look a bit more
> into Osmosis

Please add communication with Debian GIS on this list.  Both packages are
inside Debian and it makes perfectly sense to do the work only once.

> and some other small packages, like imposm.

$ apt-cache policy imposm
imposm:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.4.0+dfsg-0.1
  Version table:
     2.5.0-1 0
          5 http://http.debian.net/debian/ experimental/main amd64 Packages
     2.4.0+dfsg-0.1 0
        501 file:/home/ftp/pub/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages
        501 http://http.debian.net/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages
         50 http://http.debian.net/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages

Moving experimental to unstable should be cheap - its probably just a
consequence of the Wheezy release cycle.

> There's
> also a bug in libgdal-ecw-src and the gdal-python binding that I'll
> have to look into.

Any bug number to check this bug out?

> What have you blocked on?
>     Like I said before, there is a lot of problem with packaging
> Geotools and the Osmosis java exception.

Please try to get rid of blockers by cooperation with Debian GIS.

Kind regards and good luck for your GSoC work

     Andreas.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends/SoB 

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