[Ubuntu] Fwd: [Live-demo] Packaging and project re-organization

[Ivan Mincik]

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Hi all, I am very happy about this discussion a I hope that it could
bring us closer to our common goal.


> OK.  So the task is to push packaging stuff into pkg-grass Vcs and
> if it is not taken by some Debian GIS maintainer right in time it
> is possible to push the package to a PPA.  We are using this
> workflow in Debian Med quite successfully with BioLinux (which from
> a organisational point of view might be comparable to OSGeoLive
> since it is also an Ubuntu derivative with some extensions).  If
> they have created some packaging stuff they push it to Debian Med
> repository and we are grabbing this stuff if we have the time to do
> this, upload to Debian and than the automatic cycle:  Debian
> unstable -> Ubuntu -> BioLinux starts working without additional
> work for any backports.  I'd imagine to implement this workflow
> also into the GIS world.
> 

I also think that this is the best work flow in general. But I guess
that in multi-software projects like OSGeo-Live is, there still would
be some packages which are very problematic to package in Debian. Also
it could be very high hurdle for all new software in OSGeo-Live to be
accepted in Debian first. If Live wants to have all software packaged
in Debs it will need some help of FPM.

It seems, thanks to all Debian and Ubuntu GIS maintainers, we could
have very good Ubuntu Trusty release and packaging projects like
UbuntuGIS could serve only as some kind of backports solution or
solution for bug fix updates which are not allowed in stable Debian
release. Anyway, UbuntuGIS need some redesign.

Also, I am not sure if it is always possible to align Debian
transitions with Ubuntu LTS releases so well as it happened now.


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Ivan Mincik
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