Hello, I reported a bug on monday regarding the missing sfcgal support in Debian postgis package (788092).
The reply I got from Sebastiaan suggests, that this can't be added, as there is curretnly no Debian package of sfcgal and it would be unlikely that there will be one soon either, even if I would file a RFP bug: "Packaging it yourself is the most promising road forward" So I just thought "how difficult could that be" and started doing one... What I have now is 3 binary packages generated along the lines of the manual available at http://pkg-grass.alioth.debian.org/policy/packaging.html#git-new-package My package is available at git://git.geggus.net/debian/sfcgal.git, works for me (postgis support has yet to get tested), and lintian produces only some minor warnings: W: libsfcgal-dev: new-package-should-close-itp-bug W: libsfcgal-dev: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/sfcgal-config W: libsfcgal1: new-package-should-close-itp-bug W: sfcgal-bin: new-package-should-close-itp-bug W: sfcgal-bin: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/viewer-SFCGAL Upstream sources sfcgal_1.1.0.orig.tar.gz can be obtained from: https://github.com/Oslandia/SFCGAL/archive/v1.1.0.tar.gz Arguably one should rather use git master for the package instead of v1.1.0 My question is now: How would I continue at this stage? I'm not a Debian Maintainer, but have been working with the distribution as user and sysadmin for 15 years now. Regards Sven -- Exploits and holes are a now a necessary protection against large corporate interests. (Alan Cox) /me is giggls@ircnet, http://sven.gegg.us/ on the Web -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
