[DebianGIS-dev] maps / coastline files within Debian

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:12:02PM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
>
> Does anyone know this code? It appears as though the gmt-coast-low is  
> not sufficient for zyGrib and magics++,
> and I'm not familiar with the history of "gmt" beyond the README.  Any  
> ideas or recommendations as to how to proceed?
>

Just for note, the downloading script can be used in non interactive
way so a debconf based postinst step to download at installation 
(or any later) time the required files could be considered. I'm too 
lazy to provide that myself, but a patch for that could be considered for 
the gmt data package could be useful. 

That said, the whole arch-indep 
data set is probably much less a concerning for storage of some years
ago, but that could be confirmed only by ftp-masters and mirror
maintainers. There were some discussions in the past about a data
providing infrastructure, but I missed the whole thread conclusion
(if any).

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Francesco P. Lovergine