[Ubuntu] DebianGIS Repo

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Jerome,

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 10:32:39AM -0500, Jerome Villeneuve Larouche wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> This is a small message to tell you that the DebianGIS repo for
> Debian Wheezy is up and that every package on it is up-to-date!
> 
> Everything is built against stable so you don't need to add any
> unstable repo to use the latest GIS packages.

In how far this is different from backports.debian.org?
 
> To add it on your machine, edit "/etc/apt/sources.list" and add the line
> 
> "deb http://debian.mapgears.com/repos/apt/debian/ <wheezy> main"
> 
> You should also add the public key with
> 
> "wget -O
> http://debian.mapgears.com/repos/apt/debian/debgis.gpg.key|apt-key
> add -"

IMHO, you could safe all this by just relying on Debian infrastructure
at backports.d.o.

Kind regards

     Andreas. 

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