[Ubuntu] UbuntuGIS Weekly Report 3

[Jerome Villeneuve Larouche]

Hi,

This week I worked on pushing pacakges on Stable for Precise and 
updating Lucid.

The stable update is done and seems to be working good. If you have any 
issue using the Stable repo, please tell me so I can quickly fix it.

The Lucid update is harder than I thought, the new packages require more 
packages that aren't available or are too old on Lucid so I have to 
build and backport some. For now GEOS, Spatialite and GDAL are up to 
date. I had modify them a bit since Lucid doesn't support multiarch.

I'm currently in the process of backporting librsvg from Precise to 
Lucid for Mapserver 6.4.1.

I've also participated in the OsgeoLive meeting this week and talked a 
bit about my plans for Java packages. We're thinking of going for a 
quick packaging way first by packaging .war to .deb. It won't be 
accepted on Debian, but for OsgeoLive and UbuntuGIS it would be a quick 
hack to have the packages available. If you have any suggestion or idea 
about that, I would be glad to hear them.

So this week didn't go as I planned and I'll try to get back the time I 
lost next week.

-- 
Jérôme Villeneuve Larouche
www.mapgears.com