On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 10:07:55AM +0200, Stephan Holl wrote: > Hello Paolo, all, > > On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 08:23:02 +0200 Paolo Cavallini > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hi all. > > I'm regularly compiling (by checkinstall) grass and qgis from cvs/svn, > > but I have a problem related to Debian packaging: debian package is > > split in grass and libgrass, with libgdal-grass (thus also the much > > needed qgis-grass plugin) depending on libgrass. Checkinstall instead > > packages grass as a whole "package". As a result, after installation > > the system complains of a missing dependency. I ma therefore forced to > > downgrade grass, install libgrass and libgdal-grass, and reinstalling > > grass-cvs. > > Could someone suggest a more elegant solution (yet, if possible, a > > simple one)? > > Many thanks. > > Wasn't the idea of splitting libgrass into separate package to make it > possible to link gdal against grass without installing the whole GRASS?! >
That was the nice initial idea of someone... Unfortuntately libgrass depends on grass too. And it has also a loop versioned dependency which is officially deprecated, because renders bin-NMU by release team impossible. So, libgrass is unuseful and problematic. See also #361962. -- Francesco P. Lovergine _______________________________________________ Pkg-grass-devel mailing list Pkg-grass-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grass-devel