Hi Johan, On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:48 PM, Johan Van de Wauw < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hello everyone, > > One of the goals for OSGeo live 8 was having more programs packaged as > deb files. Although we are still far from installing everything from > deb at least some programs were packaged, and this actually helped the > build process a lot. > > With OSGeo live version 8 released, perhaps now is a good time to make > sure those packages get into debian as well. > +1. I already plan to upload all the packages I did initially to UbuntuGIS. > > The steps that you need to do are well documented in the packaging > pages of the debian GIS policy [1]. I'd suggest that everyone who > currently has a package or wants to build a package at least does the > first step: filing an ITP bug. This is just a way to make sure that > nobody else starts doing the same thing without contacting you. > > Debian freeze is approaching (5th of november), so better no > procrastination, or your package will not be in the next release :-) > Thanks for the heads up. > > So for those of you sitting at a boring talk at foss4g or cannot sleep > after having had many great talks: start bringing packages to debian > :-) > :) > > Johan > > [1] http://pkg-grass.alioth.debian.org/policy/packaging.html > _______________________________________________ > Live-demo mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo > http://live.osgeo.org > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc > -- Angelos Tzotsos Remote Sensing Laboratory National Technical University of Athens http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
