Hi Andreas, Sorry, the wrong email snuck in when I submitted the ITP bug. I've CCd [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is my preferred address.
--- Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > * Package name : grass5.7 > > Version : 5.7.0 > Do you think that we need two different versions of > GRASS in Debian? The motivation for this is bug #248649 [1]. I package qgis which has a plugin for reading and editing grass layers. This plugin depends on gdal support for grass written by Radim Blazek. I have verified with Radim that his patches will only work with grass 5.7's newly provided libraries. Also, I believe 5.7 fixes bug #234275 [2]. I am not a heavy grass user, but it is my impression that 5.0 is getting old and that 5.7 is greatly improved. The roadmap [3] for grass is kind of confusing, but it seems reasonable to package 5.0.x, 5.3, and 5.7 to provide various levels of stability vs. currentness. It appears that grass 5.0.x and 5.7 can coexist on the system, so that should not be a problem. I sent a message to the grass packager (Federico Di Gregorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) about a week ago asking about all this and have received no response. There is also a wishlist bug for grass 5.3 (261483 [4]) that has received no response. I hope that he will have had sufficient time to raise objections before I get the package squared away. Regards, Steve Halasz [1] http://bugs.debian.org/248649 [2] http://bugs.debian.org/234275 [3] http://grass.itc.it/roadmap.html [4] http://bugs.debian.org/261483 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
