Hi Frankie, On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Francesco P. Lovergine <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 10:44:46PM -0800, Hamish wrote: > > Rashad wrote: > > > > > In continuation of IRC chat on #osgeo-live @ freenode. I would > > > like to check the possibility of merging some previous packaging > > > effort on ossim to DebianGIS. I had ossim and its related > > > packages: ossimPlanet, ossimPlanetQt, ossimPlugins, libwms and > > > ossimpredator(some problems was there for predator and I was > > > forced to disable it) in ubuntugis PPA. ossim lib and its dev > > > packages has been updated after that (some time ago) but its > > > related packages are behind two stable releases IIRC. I have the > > > debian files for all those packages and could rebuild those > > > easily. > > > > > > As there is some working going on for ossim and its > > > related packaging in DebianGIS would it be possible to merge my > > > previous effort? If so please provide me some pointers to achieve > > > this. I was involved with UbuntuGIS PPA and also time to time in > > > GRASS GIS ppa but never worked on DebianGIS. But If possible I > > > could try. > > > > Hi Rashad, > > > > you are most welcome, it is very handy for us to have someone trusted > > by upstream who can submit patches so they can appear in the next > > release. makes the packaging easier and the feedback loop tighter. :) > > > > > > Frankie should be able to set you up with a rashad-guest account to > > get access to the DebianGIS git repo, and we can all focus our efforts > > on packaging in one repo, instead of multiple people using multiple > > repos and duplicating each others work, or letting the packaging > > efforts get far out of sync so merge isn't easily possible. > > > > I think you already had some experience having the launchpad grass > > package PPA pulling from the debiangis build files, so the ppa > > for ubuntu could stay up to date but the debian/ files primarily > > maintained only in one place for all debian&deriv distros? > > > > +1 > Thanks > > I'm currently completing work on an up-to-date libossim package. I used > some work taken from your PPA package, but it had need some reshuffle > in order to be compliant with current Debian Policy, and I strongly > suggest you familiarize with it. Please let me know about the policy and also provide some documentation on getting these packages in DebianGIS. > As said previously my main interest > is allowing a fast injectiong of Orfeo Toolbox in DebianGis, and > your interest in the whole Ossim toolchain is welcome, because > I have not the time and energy to push it more, also because > its documentation and structure is still a bit confused and > requires time to spend to well understand the global design. > I'd like to see the Qt components in as well. > > So ossim-core and ossim-dev is finished and I will push others in ossim chain (ossimplanet, ossimplanetQt, libwms, ossimplugins (gdal, contrib etc..) and ossim_qt4( no recent updates but have 2D viewer iview). New ossimGui is good but no idea about the stable verison of ossimGui. I will ask garret and find out that, About Ossim (the lib) I'm not sure if supporting the MPI flavor should > be a priority, for instance. I would avoid having still another > horror story as in the HDF5 case. > Can you give your advice? > > No supporting MPI could be avoided for now. I too had such bad stories in packaging ossimpreadator and also I think OTB doesnt rely on OSSIM's MPI code. But I would ask OTB devs to have a word on it. > -- > Francesco P. Lovergine > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: > https://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > -- Regards, Rashad
