On Jan 4, 2014 4:49 PM, "Sebastiaan Couwenberg" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 01/04/2014 02:36 PM, Tim Michelsen wrote: > > Hello, > >> - Common Git repository structures > >> > >> http://linuxminded.nl/tmp/pkg-grass-website/policy.html#git-repository-structures > >> -- Other branches > >> http://linuxminded.nl/tmp/pkg-grass-website/policy.html#git-branches
I would propose to store UbuntuGIS packaging in ubuntugis/release branch to leave ubuntu/release branches for plain Ubuntu packaging. > >> > >> - PPA for Ubuntu by UbuntuGIS > >> http://linuxminded.nl/tmp/pkg-grass-website/policy.html#ubuntugis-ppa > > Are you planning to consider also the daily build PPAs in this structure? > > I'm not directly involved with the UbuntuGIS PPAs, nor the possible > OSGeo-Live PPAs, so I cannot comment on the future of the PPAs. > > The intention for the UbuntuGIS PPA section in the Debian GIS policy is > to document best practices on how to maintain the packaging source in > the Debian GIS version control repositories. > > The Debian GIS git repository should be the common source of all GIS > .deb packaging. The actual binary packages build from those sources is > managed by the respective derivatives using their specific infrastructure. > > > This is a nice feature for commonly used and fast developing packages: > > * gdal > > * grass > > * qgis > > * etc. > > Maintaining daily updates of these packages will not be any easy job. > QGIS is a beast to build and the support for the python-sip package it > depends on breaks quite often. > > GDAL, GRASS, but also Proj and GOES have many reverse dependencies which > at minimum require binary rebuilds every time these core libraries are > updated. > > Regardless of the dependency chain implications, any changes made to > support new upstream versions should be maintained in de Debian GIS > repository in the appropriate branches. > > When all maintainers of GIS related .deb packages use the Debian GIS > repository for their source packages, we can more easily support updates > for these large and/or essential packages, by sharing the workload and > package changes. > > 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
