Sebastiaan,
Thanks for the info. I'll delve into it and see if I can understand it.
You mention dealing with the version in Ubuntu and the version in
UbuntuGIS. This is always something I have not understood.
I've never understood the policies of how the versions come downstream
from Debian to Ubuntu. What updates get made by DebianGIS? Do these flow
down to Ubuntu? Or are Debian and Ubuntu stuck at a certain revision and
a ppa like UbuntuGIS is used to provide updated packages?
I've stumbled through this as a user and not understood the process and
sometimes cannot get the latest fixes.
I apologize for all the questions. Maybe the answers are in the info
you referenced. If so, don't waste your time answering. :-)
*Worth Lutz*
On 4/29/2016 7:49 AM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
On 04/29/2016 01:32 PM, Worth Lutz wrote:
I'm willing to help but know nothing about how to build a package. I'm
mainly a consumer of packages.
If someone could point me to a tutorial, I'll experiment some and see
what I can learn.
The git packaging workflow should help get you started:
https://pkg-grass.alioth.debian.org/policy/packaging.html#git-packaging
What packages have your interest? I suggest to start with those packages
and rebuild the latest package revisions from the Debian GIS git
repository for your Ubuntu release.
Beware of library packages such as gdal, geos, spatialite, spatialindex,
postgis, etc, these are non-trivial to maintain because you need to test
all reverse dependencies when with new versions of those libraries.
Handling such transitions properly is essential to not break the inter
dependencies of the packages in the PPA. You also need to deal with the
version in Ubuntu itself verses the one in UbuntuGIS.
Kind Regards,
Bas
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