Hi Andreas, On 10/14/2013 07:42 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Bas, > > On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 06:00:55PM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: >> After noticing that spatialite-tools was in danger of being removed from >> testing, and seeing that the transition to 4.x had stalled, I've looked >> into how to move this along again. > > Thanks for your work on this.
You're welcome. > >> Not all of the Gaia-SINS software is maintained by Debian GIS, FreeXL is >> maintained by David Paleino in collab-maint, and ReadOSM by David in >> pkg-osm. Fortunately these new upstream versions are not required by the >> packages that are part of Debian GIS. > > I have a very good relation to David from Debian Med team (where he > entered Debian). As far as I know (from mail and by personal > information from some other italian DD who knows him) David is quite > stressed and overworked with real life. Recent mails I sended remained > unanswered despite I know him as very responsive in the past. So we > should probably go on without him and IMHO it is perfectly in his > interest if we might move his packages to pkg-grass. We also decided > to do this in the last IRC meeting. Can we just create forks of the repositories in question? I've got updated packaging for FreeXL and ReadOSM in my personal git repo, that I cannot push to their origin in collab-maint and pkg-osm. But I'm not sure if highjacking the packages like this is proper. > >> For the SpatiaLite family the following packages where updated: >> >> 1) libgaiagraphics (0.4b -> 0.5) > > I checked this but I got: > > $ git-buildpackage > gbp:info: Orig tarball 'libgaiagraphics_0.5.orig.tar.gz' not found at > '../tarballs/' > fatal: Path 'libgaiagraphics_0.5.orig.tar.gz.delta' does not exist in > 'refs/heads/pristine-tar' > pristine-tar: git show > refs/heads/pristine-tar:libgaiagraphics_0.5.orig.tar.gz.delta failed > gbp:error: Couldn't checkout "libgaiagraphics_0.5.orig.tar.gz": > /usr/bin/pristine-tar returned 128 > > > I'm not sure why this happened. In the past this happened from time > to time and I was able to cure the problem by a fresh `gbp-clone <URL>` > but in this case I have a fresh checkout and all branches are there: > > $ git branch > * master > pristine-tar > upstream > > Any hint? The repo on Alioth was a bit outdated, I just pushed all my changes to correct this. > >> Andreas has kindly offered his SoB for the uploads, so I'll use that to >> coordinate the uploads of the packages in question. > > Yep, I could do this. If it is just my with my broken Git skills I might > just fetch the upstream tarball manually. We can proceed with the other > packages step by step. Git skills should be the issue. Having the patience to wait for the armel builds before uploading the next package will be. ;-) > > Thanks for your immense work on these packages > > Andreas. Thanks for your sponsoring and other efforts to improve the Debian GIS Blend. Kind Regards, Bas -- GnuPG: 0xE88D4AF1 (new) / 0x77A975AD (old) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
