[Ubuntu] [SoC] UbuntuGIS Weekly Report 6

[Jerome Villeneuve Larouche]

Hi Andreas,

For Osmosis I'm trying to package the new released version 0.43.1 which 
doesn't build the same way as 0.40. They use gradle now. I can get it to 
compile but when I try it, it throws ClassNotFound exceptions, same 
thing happen when I build it myself without using debuild.

The ticket in lilbgdal-ecw-src is here: 
http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/ticket/34.

For Marble, contacting the maintainers might be a good idea since it 
seems that compiling without KDE removes a lot from Marble, I'll have to 
see with OSGeoLive too if it still works for them.

The blockage with Geotools is that it requires Java Artifacts that are 
not available in a .deb. The most important one is JAI which can't be 
packaged from what I understand because of its license. Someone told me 
that it may be possible to disable JAI in GeoTools so I'll have to look 
into it.

On 13-07-27 04:13 PM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 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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