Re: pre-ITP: New category Gis?

2004-10-12 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 05:40:45PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Would this be the time to bite the bullet and allow package subcategories (as is already done with directories)? I see at least two ways to do this: either change the format of

Re: pre-ITP: New category Gis?

2004-10-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 09:54:35AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: I doubt it'll actually increase customer support calls... Also, could it be that one reason the categories aren't used too much is that they are rather arbitrary in some cases, and don't serve to group similar packages well

Re: pre-ITP: New category Gis?

2004-10-11 Thread Charles Wilson
Brian Ford wrote: On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Reini Urban wrote: libgeotiff is explicitly not needed, but maybe we want to have it extra also. We'd like it separate. We are currently maintaining a local package. I may be interested in maintaining it publicly if no one else is. Patience. I have one

pre-ITP: New category Gis?

2004-10-09 Thread Reini Urban
I plan to ITP the following GIS packages in the next days. Have to wait for some postgresql decisions upstream. proj (but maybe Charles wants to keep his ITP) geos gdal (includes libgeotiff, ogr and a python lib) postgis mapserver mapscript-php (for mapserver, a binary php extension)

Re: pre-ITP: New category Gis?

2004-10-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 04:38:35PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: If not I'll put proj, geos and gdal into Libs, postgis into Database, and mapserver into Web. Where does Debian place these packages? Or aren't they available on Debian? cgf

Re: pre-ITP: New category Gis?

2004-10-09 Thread Charles Wilson
Reini Urban wrote: I plan to ITP the following GIS packages in the next days. Have to wait for some postgresql decisions upstream. proj (but maybe Charles wants to keep his ITP) geos gdal (includes libgeotiff, ogr and a python lib) Wait. Does gdal include libgeotiff internally, or does it install

Re: pre-ITP: New category Gis?

2004-10-09 Thread Charles Wilson
Charles Wilson wrote: I plan to ITP the following GIS packages in the next days. Have to wait for some postgresql decisions upstream. proj (but maybe Charles wants to keep his ITP) geos gdal (includes libgeotiff, ogr and a python lib) Wait. Does gdal include libgeotiff internally, or does it

RE: pre-ITP: New category Gis?

2004-10-09 Thread Norman Vine
Charles Wilson writes: Reini Urban wrote: I plan to ITP the following GIS packages in the next days. Have to wait for some postgresql decisions upstream. proj (but maybe Charles wants to keep his ITP) geos gdal (includes libgeotiff, ogr and a python lib) Wait. Does gdal