[DebianGIS-dev] Development and Packaging needed: QGIS Georeferencer plugin

Tue May 22 20:02:17 UTC 2007

Hi everybody,

we need support in packaging an enhancement to qgis for a debian-based
LiveCD (KNOPPIX) that will be distributed by the Ministry of
Rhineland-Palatinate. We - WhereGroup based in Bonn, Germany, service
provider around FOSS4G - are ready to fund such support. The enhancement
has been made in the georeferencer plugin
(svn/trunk/qgis/src/plugins/georeferencer) and is checked into svn HEAD.
Thanks Oleg, Thanks Tim.

Now - getting to the point here - we still need some support in packaging
this. What we want is an enhanced version of exactly the package that we
already run (qgis version 0.8.0-3 maintained by the debianGIS project -
find more package info below). Maybe we could supply the source from our
KNOPPIX, someone patches the changes in, builds the package, we get it
back - all happy.

Anybody able to help us out here?

Cheers

Sebastian

>> knoppix at Knoppix:~$ apt-cache show qgis
>> Package: qgis
>> Priority: extra
>> Section: science
>> Installed-Size: 15811
>> Maintainer: Debian GIS Project <pkg-grass-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
>> Architecture: i386
>> Version: 0.8.0-3
>> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5), libexpat1 (>= 1.95.8), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.2),
>> libgdal1-1.4.0, libgeos2c2a (>= 2.2.3), libgsl0 (>= 1.4), libpq5,
>> libqgis1, libqt4-core (>= 4.2.3), libqt4-gui (>= 4.2.3),
>> libqt4-qt3support (>= 4.2.3), libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.3.16), libstdc++6 (>=
>> 4.1.2), proj
>> Suggests: qgis-plugin-grass
>> Filename: pool/main/q/qgis/qgis_0.8.0-3_i386.deb
>> Size: 6143384
>> MD5sum: bcf32579add171ab690f45a5244d4b09
>> SHA1: 0e171ee770684f29a452b49151648fc2b2469790
>> SHA256: f3081458cfbadd09a3ff29dd082a84a7ff7b0ae5e1793fdbc3def55640cbec68
>> Description: Geographic Information System (GIS)
>>  A Geographic Information System (GIS) manages,
>>   analyzes, and displays databases of geographic
>>    information. Quantum GIS (QGIS) supports shapefile
>>     viewing and editing, spatial data storage with
>>      PostgreSQL/PostGIS, projection on-the-fly, map
>>       composition, and a number of other features via
>>        a plugin interface. QGIS also supports display
>>         of various georeferenced raster and Digital
>>      Elevation Model (DEM) formats including
>>       GeoTIFF, Arc/Info ASCII Grid, and USGS ASCII DEM.
>>       Tag: field::geography, interface::x11, role::program,
>> scope::application, scope::utility, uitoolkit::qt, use::viewing,
>> x11::application
>>
>>
>> knoppix at Knoppix:~$ apt-cache showsrc qgis
>>
>> Package: qgis
>> Binary: qgis-plugin-grass, libqgis1-dev, qgis, libqgis1
>> Version: 0.8.0-3
>> Priority: extra
>> Section: science
>> Maintainer: Debian GIS Project <pkg-grass-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
>> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5.0.0), libgdal1-dev, libqt4-dev, libpq-dev
>> | postgresql-dev, libgeos-dev (>= 2.0.1-1), dpatch, grass-dev,
>> libsqlite3-dev, libgsl0-dev, proj, libexpat1-dev, libmysqlclient15-dev |
>> libmysqlclient14-dev, flex, bison
>> Architecture: any
>> Standards-Version: 3.7.2
>> Format: 1.0
>> Directory: pool/main/q/qgis
>> Files:
>>  8c51937089c3b34f19415b710619536a 886 qgis_0.8.0-3.dsc
>>   a4d2ec7d18d1775b3e504c603c42d4fc 8301330 qgis_0.8.0.orig.tar.gz
>>    0a640d36fcef67e44dd6990b152a8698 20030 qgis_0.8.0-3.diff.gz
>>    Uploaders: Francesco Paolo Lovergine <frankie at debian.org>

> Hi
>
> It sounds like you want to contact the person doing the software
> packaging in this case.
>
> If you cant get hold of them let me know and I can try to build a
> package for you.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
> 2007/5/22, Sebastian Schmitz <sebastian.schmitz at wheregroup.com>:
>> Hi Oleg, Tim
>>
>> first of all, thanks for your support and the coding effort.
>>
>> However, as we are not at all into qgis-development, building and
>> packaging we need more support and we are happy to fund you or anyone
>> else that can help us.
>>
>> We prepare a LiveCD that will have QGIS on it as Desktop GIS. This CD
>> will be distributed by the Ministry of Rhineland-Palatinate (one of the
>> german federal states) to a fair number of counties in order to make
>> them want to use FOSS4G for their geodata needs.
>>
>> On this LiveCD, which is a debian-based LiveCD called KNOPPIX, we have
>> QGIS installed and running fine (qgis version 0.8.0-3 maintained by the
>> debianGIS project). What we really need is a modified version of exactly
>> that package that can run in our environment.
>>
>> Could any of you help out here?
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Sebastian
>>
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