[Ubuntu] DebianGIS Repo

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 07:45:49PM +0100, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> On 11/22/2013 07:27 PM, Jerome Villeneuve Larouche wrote:
> > I didn't know about backport, thanks for pointing it out. I can't seem
> > to find any packages in backport so I can't really tell if our repo is
> > more up-to-date. If it's always getting the latest release in unstable,
> > indeed it might be at the same point.
> 
> AFAIK there are no Debian GIS packages in wheezy-backports yet. There
> has been talk of providing backports for the next stable release
> (jessie), but nothing concrete has come out of that.
> 
> It's also a bit early for that. Several core libraries have not been
> updated in unstable yet, having the same version in stable, testing and
> unstable.
> 
> The backports for Debian would be based on the packages in testing, not
> those uploaded to unstable. So we first need to update the GIS packages
> in unstable.
> 
> I'd like to have dedicated branches in the Debian GIS git for these
> backports, so we have all the packing in one place. Since these are not
> official Debian backports, naming the branch "mapgears-backports" may be
> approriate. We can cherry-pick changes from these branches for the
> official backports once we get around to them.

This sounds to me a reasonable plan.  I was just mentioning backports
because this is some official resource Debian provides which at least
should be known to the users (obviously it is not properly advertised).
At least the my idea was that users who are not aware about Jerome's
  http://debian.mapgears.com/repos/apt/debian/
should easily find it.  It also seems more sustainable for me in
principle to use this resource and I'd regard Jerome's time well spent
to work together with others on these official backports instead of
seting up a separate repository (if it in fact serves the same purpose).

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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