I didn't send the previous posting to the debian-gis list. Apologies - here it is again.
Chris Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Hamish wrote: > > > > > feel free to edit the wiki page; the geography meta-package is already > > > listed: > > I still can't find a link to: > > http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/gis/tasks/workstation.html - though there > is a link to the > http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=education-geography > metapackage [1]. > > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis/PackageList > > > (not all packages on that list are included in tasks) > > There appear to be 3 lists: education-geography,science-geography and > gis-workstation (that nobody mentions, and I found from a previous > mail by Andreas). > > I can see merit[2] in two - education-geography for schools, and one of > science-geography or gis-workstation for researchers. > > > > > Anybody cares to maintain the tasks files? Any reason for not touching the > > dasks files for one year? Any help needed? > > Hamish suggested I edited the wiki - and it is possible I may find > time to do that - but I certainly can't do it until I know what the > wiki should say. > > The obvious solutions to me are: > > A) Do as is done for debian-med and have the science-geography task > that depends on gis-workstation. In another mail, Andreas points to > improvements that will allow #includes in metapackages in the not > too distant future. > > > B) Just use the science-geography task (possibly renamed) and > i) Get the DebianScience wiki page to point at > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis > or > ii) Move the contents of DebianGis to DebianScience/Geography > > C) Something else. > > Chris > > > > [1] Andreas, perhaps you should also add a link to the task pages to > point to the corresponding metapackages. > > [2] I'm a physicist, not a geographer, so I may well have completely > missed the point here. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
