Paolo,

I was in no way impeaching the quality of the Debian GIS packages. I have
found them excellent and the effort is much appreciated. I have had issues
in the past with the quality of some other Debian packages, but those as I
said are in the minority -- most are well done.

Cheers,
THK

On 12/17/06, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini@faunalia.it> wrote:
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> No, I was talking about debian testing. It is the most updated
> distribution for GIS. I do not know much about the far past, but all
> current packages are in *very* good shape, up to date, and have been
> this way in the last couple of years (thanks to the DebianGIS project).
> Anyway, we don't want to start a flame war, don't we? I was just
> suggesting the easiest way to get recent packages through a single
> command.
> pc
> Tim Keitt ha scritto:
> > You mean Ubuntu lags behind Debian unstable. Debian unstable is
> constantly
> > being updated. This is either a good thing or a bad thing depending on
> your
> > perspective. I ran Debian unstable for several years and believe me the
> > quality of Debian packaging varies a lot. Most Debian devs are quite
> good,
> > but some are downright sloppy. YMMV. If you want a super stable
> > distribution, Debian stable is great, but tends to lag a couple of years
> > behind current development. Ubuntu snapshots Debian unstable twice a
> year
> > and cleans up the mess. You can track the development version of Ubuntu
> if
> > you want and it will get you closer to Debian unstable, but with
> possibly
> > more breakage.
> >
> > I've not had any problem with GIS on Ubuntu except interfacing with
> CRAN.
> > The problem is CRAN is on a rolling update model without any policy
> about
> > backward compatibility.  (A little like Gentoo, which I also like, but
> can
> > be very very messy). I think the R community needs to start thinking
> about
> > having stable/unstable branches with a 6 month changeover cycle.
> >
> > THK
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