Bug#521819: debian-science: New proj dependencies

[Andreas Tille]

On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, frankie at debian.org wrote:

> You should change your build-dep from 'proj' to 'libproj-dev' and
> eventually also depend on 'proj-bin' if debian-science requires proj
> command-line tools to work, i.e.:
>
> /usr/bin/geod /usr/bin/proj /usr/bin/cs2cs /usr/bin/nad2bin
> /usr/bin/nad2nad /usr/bin/invgeod /usr/bin/invproj

Yes, debian-science just depends on the command line tools or rather
it wants to provide users who deal with geographical tasks some tools
to deal with these tasks.  So I did:

$ svn diff
Index: debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- debian/changelog    (Revision 1481)
+++ debian/changelog    (Arbeitskopie)
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
    * Bumped policy to 3.8.1 and make use of the new feature that
      debian/control allows comment lines starting with # with no
      preceding whitespace. [Policy paragraph 5.2]
+  * tasks/geography: Depend from proj-bin instead of proj
+    Closes: #521819

    [ Michael Hanke ]
    * Added preliminary task for cognitive neuroscience.
Index: tasks/geography
===================================================================
--- tasks/geography     (Revision 1481)
+++ tasks/geography     (Arbeitskopie)
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@

  Depends: qgis-plugin-grass

+Depends: proj-bin
+
  Depends:     mapserver-bin, \
               gmt, \
               gpsbabel, \
@@ -47,7 +49,6 @@
               openscenegraph, \
               thuban, \
               drawmap, \
-             proj, \
               postgis, \
               grace6, \
               gpstrans, \


Francesco, BTW I really think you should try to understand the idea behind
Debian Pure Blends its metapackage systems and the other advantages you might
gain.  Petter has just started out with some stuff but has not really continued
this.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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