[DebianGIS-dev] Backports: libgdal1-1.5.0 and also: libgeos-3.0.0, postgresql-8.3-postgis, python-psycopg2

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:35:20AM -0400, Paul Prince wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I follow development of GeoDjango (http://geodjango.org/) which is the
> GIS-enabled branch of the popular Django web application framework.  It is
> expected to merge with Django proper before Django 1.0 is released in
> September, 2008.
> 
> In the process of writing a HOWTO guide for GeoDjango installation on Debian
> 4.0 "Etch", I realized that I'm missing some backports :/
> 
> This list is listed as the maintainer of libgdal1-1.5.0/etch-backports.
> There is no x86_64 version (only i386) of this backport.  Would anyone here
> be interested in uploading an x86_64 version?
> 

I think so, and specifically a complete ports of etch-backports to amd64
would be nice.

> Also, the following three non-backported packages are required for
> GeoDjango.  Would anyone be interested in backporting them?
> They are:
>    * postgresql-8.3-postgis
>    * libgeos-3.0.0
>    * python-psycopg2

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Francesco P. Lovergine