Hello all,

I want to copy packaging of OTB from DebianGIS to UbuntuGIS. the targeted
distros are precise, vivd, willy. I had read and understood the recommended
naming for ubunutgis ppa.

Now earlier, OTB has 6S enabled in ubunutgis ppa without any issue. As it
does not have a license available this was removed from debian packages.

My question is what is the preferred way to achieve this goal ?

I can fork a branch from otb.git/master and activate 6S in it or use some
code in debian/rules to set OTB_USE_6S=ON like in qgis. The problem here is
that upstream sources are different. I am not sure about updating the
repacking which is currently done in master branch.

Any help would be much appreciated.



On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 10:32 PM, Rashad Kanavath <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Bas,
>
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 10:13 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 29-12-15 21:42, Rashad Kanavath wrote:
>> > Thanks a lot for sponsoring OTB package!. I had comment on bug tracker
>> [1]
>> > which says splitting of shared libraries is not good for OTB. In OTB the
>> > version of all .so from source package changes altogether and it should
>> be
>> > put in a single package.
>> >
>> > Should I go back to single libotb  and libotb-dev ?
>>
>> I don't recommend switching back to bundling libraries.
>>
>
> Thanks.
>
>>
>> > I thought it might be easier for other projects to have separated
>> packages.
>> > But comments from [1]  says that each minor release of package must
>> result
>> > in all libotb* packages to pass through the NEW queue.
>>
>> Whether a SONAME bump changes the package name for one or many packages
>> doesn't make a difference with respect to the NEW queue. Just one
>> renamed package is enough to have to pass the NEW queue again.
>>
>> > Any thoughts ?
>> >
>> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=809312#15
>>
>> ITK & VTK are not good examples of well managed packages in my opinion,
>> so I wouldn't look at them for inspiration.
>>
>
> Okay. The comments were saying it causing a burden on co-maintainers and
> keeping them away. That is why I asked. if the packaging need to be redone.
> I must know. I did seperate because it can be helpful in others. I also
> listed that this method was using in qgis for example. which I think has a
> similar situation.
>
> I was thinking if the SONAME  have simply the major version instead of
> major.minor that might be a good.  I can check with this with upstream if
> that is feasible.
>
>>
>> The NEW queue is not a bad thing that one should optimize its packaging
>> for to avoid.
>>
>
> Okay. I don't know much about NEW queue and it whole process. To put it
> simple, the packages are checked manually to keep debian clean legally and
> otherwise.
>
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>>
>> Bas
>>
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