Live GIS Disc Packaging

=Goal= The goal of creating packages for the Live GIS Disc is everything required to create a customized version of the Live Disc. This includes Debian packages of


 * geospatial applications
 * configuration files
 * sample data
 * sample projects and examples

The efforts to provide Debian packages does not compete with the DebianGIS-project. Our focus is not on creating official packages for any applications. We only package applications where a project's build process or dependencies make it difficult to create a package fulfilling the official requirements and guidelines for a Debian package. Instead our focus is on packaging additional material (data, examples, configurations) in order to make them easily usable for everyone.

Guidelines

 * Basic rules of reuse apply. If the same application configuration is used by more than one tutorial, it belongs in it's own package.
 * Standard version numbering is required to ensure compatibility as tutorials are updated.
 * Packages should be compatible with both Ubuntu and Debian
 * OSGeo should host a package repository for this work
 * Applications should target release to official Debian repositories as a long-term goal

Meta-Packages
Also working on packaging applications and additional material makes the collaboration between the different contributors of a project more easy.

To allow for easily reproduce packages and repackaging we store scripts, config-files and instructions on how to build each package in the projects subversion repository.