On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Hamish <hamis...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Rashad wrote: > > > In continuation of IRC chat on #osgeo-live @ freenode. I would > > like to check the possibility of merging some previous packaging > > effort on ossim to DebianGIS. I had ossim and its related > > packages: ossimPlanet, ossimPlanetQt, ossimPlugins, libwms and > > ossimpredator(some problems was there for predator and I was > > forced to disable it) in ubuntugis PPA. ossim lib and its dev > > packages has been updated after that (some time ago) but its > > related packages are behind two stable releases IIRC. I have the > > debian files for all those packages and could rebuild those > > easily. > > > > As there is some working going on for ossim and its > > related packaging in DebianGIS would it be possible to merge my > > previous effort? If so please provide me some pointers to achieve > > this. I was involved with UbuntuGIS PPA and also time to time in > > GRASS GIS ppa but never worked on DebianGIS. But If possible I > > could try. > > Hi Rashad, > > you are most welcome, it is very handy for us to have someone trusted by > upstream who can submit patches so they can appear in the next release. > makes the packaging easier and the feedback loop tighter. :) > > > Frankie should be able to set you up with a rashad-guest account to get > access to the DebianGIS git repo, and we can all focus our efforts on > packaging in one repo, instead of multiple people using multiple repos and > duplicating each others work, or letting the packaging efforts get far out > of sync so merge isn't easily possible. >
Thanks Hamish and Frankie. > > I think you already had some experience having the launchpad grass package > PPA pulling from the debiangis build files, so the ppa for ubuntu could > stay up to date but the debian/ files primarily maintained only in one > place for all debian&deriv distros? > > yes I agree. It could go to DebianGIS. > > > thanks, > Hamish > > -- Regards, Rashad
