On 05/24/2013 02:44 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Sebastiaan, > > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 02:33:49PM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: >> The library packaging doesn't use the SONAME as package name as >> recommended by the policy. > > Without checking the actual package just a general remark: While I'm > much in favour of following policy (and library packaging guide) I can > assure you that there are a lot of library packages around that fail > to confirm this criterion. This should not mean I want to suggest to > ignore this issue but finally you need to weight pros and cons.
My initial packaging used the SONAME for the package name, but after finding the Ubuntu packaging I decided to adopt their approach. First priority is fixing the linking to make mapserver fully functional without LD_PRELOAD. >> Waiting for mapserver 6.4 may also be an option, since upsteam is >> changing the build system again, this time to cmake. > > Is there any schedule for this release? The mapserver 6.4 release plan has it scheduled for August 29th 2013. https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/wiki/MapServer-6.4-Release-Plan#planned-dates >>> Any reason not to just apply for becoming a member and use alioth as >>> centralised infrastructure for Debian development? >> >> Since this is my first contribution to the Debian GIS team I think it's >> a bit premature to apply for team membership. > > Hmmm, this is a strange logic: How can you do a contribution to the > team if you are no member? In general I'd suggest to be bold and simply > ask for beeing added to the alioth project (well, I'm not a pkg-grass > member either - but speaking from my general experience in Debian > teams). If you want to contribute it is the most simply thing to do > it were all other people are doing it as well. It's a bit strange indeed, I'm probably a bit overcautious in my approach. I was following the advice on the Debian GIS Information for Developers wiki which mentions that it's better to submit a few patches before asking for commit access if you're not a DD. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis/InfoForDevelopers#Maintainership I followed your advices and asked for membership on Alioth. > Kind regards and thanks for your work on mapserver > > Andreas. Thanks for the feedback and encouragement, Bas -- GnuPG: 0xE88D4AF1 (new) / 0x77A975AD (old) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-gis-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/519f7053.9070...@xs4all.nl
