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Re: [Pkg-grass-general] debian-gis unofficial?



On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 08:11:33PM +0200, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> I had a dream. And the dream was:
> apt-get install grass qgis mapserver postgis
> I do not agree with the view of buiding non-official debian repository. My 
> hope is to have debian-gis, which means that the normal user should not worry 
> about uncertain (and potentially dangerous) sources, etc.
> After all, power users can always install these programs from source, or using 
> the grass tgz, etc. So better work for the "good" solution, ie official 
> repository.
> Please consider the user's point of view.
> All the best.
> pc
> 

Being near the freezing of Sarge, mainstream development could only
continue within unstable and follow Etch (i.e. Sarge+1) future 
policy. I'm quite sure we will have to prepare unofficial archive
for next stable incoming. Having packages within the main archive
or off is a detail. What's important is the quality of those packages.

What could keep packages definitively off main are license problems,
of course.

-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine



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