[Ubuntu] [SoC] UbuntuGIS Weekly Report 6

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi Jerome,

Regarding Marble packaging, I am putting Torsten in CC in case you wish 
to ask something about Marble-Qt

My question is: which version should we pack?
Is there a Qt version only in KDE/4.10.5 or should we build from git master?
My testing shows that git master has a *much* improved UI, but how 
stable is it?

Cheers,
Angelos

On 07/29/2013 04:26 PM, Jerome Villeneuve Larouche wrote:
> 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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Angelos Tzotsos
Remote Sensing Laboratory
National Technical University of Athens
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos

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