> > On Jan 3, 2014 6:06 PM, "Sebastiaan Couwenberg" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 01/03/2014 10:17 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > I added a paragraph to the Debian Med policy where I describe how > > > derivatives are working together with Debian Med. This is probably > > > quite interesting to take over into Debian GIS because it is inviting > > > to interested persons: > > > > > > http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-med/trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml?view=diff&r1=15713&r2=15719&diff_format=h > > > > > > which is rendered here > > > > > > http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html#derivatives > > > > > > The goal is to strengthen the cooperation between people with the very > > > same interest and help developers of derivatives to profit as best as > > > possible from Debian GIS work. > > > > Hi Andreas, > > > > Thanks for the pointer to the Debian Med Policy change. > > > > My intent for the "PPA for Ubuntu" paragraph in the proposed Debian GIS > > team policy is to document the best practices for including packaging > > for the UbuntuGIS PPAs in the Debian GIS git repositories. > > > > http://linuxminded.nl/tmp/pkg-grass-website/policy.html#ubuntugis-ppa > > > > How the Debian GIS git repository is structured for the distribution > > specific branches is documented in the "Common Git repository > > structures" paragraph. > > > > http://linuxminded.nl/tmp/pkg-grass-website/policy.html#git-repository-structures > > > > The Debian and Ubuntu branches can also be complemented by OSGeo-Live > > specific branches named "osgeo/8.0" for instance. > > > > I've asked for feedback on the UbuntuGIS specifics in the proposed > > Debian GIS team policy in the "Collaboration between UbuntuGIS & Debian > > GIS and its proposed team policy" thread starting at: > > > > http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ubuntu/2013-December/000968.html > > > > The only feedback so far is a suggestion to split the general packaging > > information into a separate page. > > > > Splitting the packaging best practices from the policy document is not > > an option, since documenting how to package for Debian GIS is it primary > > purpose. > > >
Sebastian, you did very good job by writing that policy document. I agree with tools you are using, branch naming. What I miss there is more detailed pbuilder/cowbuilder creation procedure. This is where I am always not sure which way is best. Would you please add procedure you propose? Also I would not recommend using svn at all. > > > Not having the entire policy document as a single HTML page is probably > > a good idea. > > > > I'll look at the Debian Med Policy change in more detail to help improve > > the UbuntuGIS and OSGeo specifics in the proposed Debian GIS team policy. > > > > Kind Regards, > > > > Bas > > > > -- > > GnuPG: 0xE88D4AF1 (new) / 0x77A975AD (old) > > _______________________________________________ > > UbuntuGIS mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu > > http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki
