[Ubuntu] [SoC] UbuntuGIS Weekly Report 2

[Cameron Shorter]

Thanks for the feedback Jerome,

One of the goals I'm hoping to see come out of your great work is to 
build up sustainability and continuity beyond the GSoC timeline.
A potential way to achieve this (which we have adopted for OSGeoLive) is 
to help projects incorporate packaging into their build process, such 
that they can take ownership of packaging themselves. Part of this 
involves just letting projects know what you have done for them, and 
then listening to hear how they might suggest to build upon your work, 
and take ownership of it. Maybe a blog post, accompanied by an email to 
the project's email list?
I will forward your status report to the OSGeo-Live points of contact 
for PostGIS and Spatialite.

(If you haven't already seen it, I explain this concept in more detail 
in this blog post:
http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com.au/2011/06/memoirs-of-cat-herder-coordinating.html 
)

Daniel, as you sit in the same office as Jerome, it might be worth 
brainstorming ideas with Jerome?

And if you haven't already picked up on it, I think the greatest value 
that we can gain from this exercise would be to focus more on solving 
the java related packing issues, (especially with Ben helping as a mentor).

Also, I suggest dropping by on our next OSGeoLive weekly meeting.
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Contact_Us


On 31/05/2014 6:45 am, Jerome Villeneuve Larouche wrote:
> This week I finished the Precise Update and added PostGIS 2.1.3 and 
> Spatilialite-GUI 1.7.1 to Trusty.
>
> I had small problems with the geos-ruby package on Precise since it's 
> been patched for ruby 2.0 on Debian and it isn't available on Precise.
> I also had a problem I got last year with PostGIS using 
> Build-depend-indep for the Java requirements which isn't run when 
> build amd64 on Launchpad since the indep packages are built on i386. 
> The ugly fix is to add the indep dependencies to the standard 
> build-depend. I pushed it that way for now, but I'll try to make a 
> proper fix for it.
>
> Next week I'll be working on updating Lucid and Saucy. I'll also 
> probably start copying packages on UbuntuGIS-Stable.
>

-- 
Cameron Shorter,
Software and Data Solutions Manager
LISAsoft
Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,
26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009

P +61 2 9009 5000,  W www.lisasoft.com,  F +61 2 9009 5099