Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Upstream Author: David G. Tarboton URL: http://hydrology.usu.edu/taudem/taudem5.0/ License: gpl2
>From author's site: TauDEM (Terrain Analysis Using Digital Elevation Models) is a suite of Digital Elevation Model (DEM) tools for the extraction and analysis of hydrologic information from topography as represented by a DEM. TauDEM is a quite popular set of command line tools and in many aspects outperforms similar tools available in GRASS GIS. The unavailability of this package on GNU/Linux was brought up on qgis-developer [1] mailing list and also it was forwared to debian-gis [2]. QGIS users will benefit from this package as there is a wrapper plugin exists named sextante-taudem [3]. I would like to package taudem. However there are several versions available as of now that are similar in functionality but not quite interchangeable. Namely, one may think of 5.2 as a batch processing version of 5.0.6 . Thus some may want to have both installed. I understand it will be cumbersome to have versioned package name. Therefore I suggest to package 5.0.6 under taudem name and 5.2 as taudem-mf (new wnpp bug will follow if this idea is accepted). This way it would be possible to provide two concurrent versions in case authors of software will continue to release code in two branches. I have set up a ppa [4] for Ubuntu users. The original source code is patched using quilt (3.0) format and alternatives are used to provide executables in /usr/bin/ . [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2012-June/020732.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-gis/2012/06/msg00014.html [3] http://hub.qgis.org/projects/sextante-taudem [4] https://launchpad.net/~mtitov/+archive/taudem/+packages Mikhail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/9q04npksmur....@gmx.us
