Hello All, I am a long time Debian/Ubuntu user, and now I do a good deal of pretty basic geospatial programming and administration of systems for GIS analysts. The DebianGIS/UbuntuGIS repositories have been invaluable, and I thank you all for the time and effort you have contributed. Maybe at some point I will be able to contribute a build or trivial fix.
Question first: Why is the UbuntuGIS qgis package using the dpkg version epoch at the moment? Boring motivating details: I am fairly novice when it comes to roll-your-own .deb package, because I have never needed to before. The reason I've looked into this is that work files take advantage of the scale and offset parameters in GeoTIFF files, and there was recently a fix committed into the QuantumGIS source code (https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/commit/914ecc9c0980012b27b15ce5616cf5541da66f55) that appears to have been merged into the release-2_8 branch. Empirically seeing that the fix wasn't there in the version on UbuntuGIS, I grabbed the source, build the debs, tested that the fix worked, and added a local repo sources.list.d. Unfortunately, apt-get wouldn't install the newer version because of the epoch. I can just add the epoch to my package, but then I'd have to keep an eye on the repo to see when a newer version of qgis makes its way there. Anyway, thanks for any information and your time, Ian -- /** * Ian * * "Dans les champs de l'observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés" */ _______________________________________________ UbuntuGIS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki
