[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#441797: [DebianGIS] [Fwd: postgis REMOVED from testing]

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

severity 441797 important
severity 441794 important
thanks

On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 09:41:35AM +0200, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> Hi all.
> Could someone please update us about the state of PostGIS, and the
> prospects for the near future?
> Thanks a lot.
> pc
> 

Have a look to the main bug 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=441797

I have a couple of ideas about that:

1. it's not a true issue for etch->lenny because postgres versions
   are different and users can easily maintain the old version
   and migrate by hard upgrade script, as documented in the
   README file. So this is not a RC bug.

2. 1.3.1 is not more present in the archive, so that does not break
   anything currently.

3. We need to prepare a migration framework that uses the trick
   I shown in the report. 
   Thanks strk for a past discussion about that :-)
   That should allow a more soft migration in some cases, but anyway
   Postgis REQUIRES running soft/hard upgrades scripts for all
   its databases, and that is a MUST and users are warned about
   that in README.Debian since ages. There's not a silver bullet.

On this basis I would reduce the severity of those bugs to important.


> -------- Messaggio Originale  --------
> Oggetto: [DebianGIS-dev] postgis REMOVED from testing
> Data: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:39:22 -0600
> Da: Debian testing watch <noreply at henning.makholm.net>
> 
> FYI: The status of the postgis source package
> in Debian's testing distribution has changed.
> 
>   Previous version: 1.3.3-1
>   Current version:  (not in testing)
>   Hint: (no removal hint found)
> 

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Francesco P. Lovergine