On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 09-12-15 18:21, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> > specifically what had to be done for ossim?
>
> Unfortunately a lot. The current packaging uses a custom upstream
> tarball from SVN, but the published upstream tarball should be used now.
>
> That contains a lot more that just the ossim sources currently used by
> the package, so an extensive update to the copyright file is required
> plus possible repacking of non-free bits. The packaging needs to be
> updated to build ossim from the ossim subdirectory instead of the root
> (using the dh --sourcedirectory option) at the minimum.
>
>
can't we repack the ossim source and take out just ossim-core. ?

I can take up this task if nobody is there. So far I found the following
issues:




The packaging changes from OSGeo-Live need to be reviewed and considered
> for inclusion, they updated the ossim package to 1.8.18 but didn't
> contribute that back to Debian GIS.
>
> I've looked at updating OSSIM in the past, but since I so far have no
> need to it myself I haven't found the motivation to continue with it.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Bas
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