Debian GIS Project

What is Debian GIS?

Debian GIS is a Debian Pure Blend with the aim to develop Debian into the best distribution for Geographical Information System applications and users.

A good deal of GIS related software and libraries (e.g. GRASS GIS, GDAL, and PROJ) are already present in Debian.

Thanks to efforts of the Debian GIS team, we currently have many exciting GIS packages in Debian's main archives. Other programs are well along their way to being included in the archive.

The Debian source packages maintained by the Debian GIS team are also used by efforts to support current GIS software on Debian derivatives such as UbuntuGIS, which provides backports of GIS packages for Ubuntu, and OSGeo-Live for their Ubuntu based distribution.

Contact Information:

We use:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian-gis-team

for storing of and working on our packages

https://bugs.debian.org/

for bugtracking of our packages

debian-gis@lists.debian.org

for internal communication as well as the contact place for others;
mailing list subscription and archives are on lists.debian.org

#debian-gis channel on irc.debian.org (webchat)

for real-time communication

pkg-grass-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org

for the Maintainer field and the automatic mails related to that;
mailing list subscription and archives are on lists.alioth.debian.org

Various useful links:

Debian GIS Blends Tasks page (long listing)

Debian GIS Blends Bugs page

Debian GIS Blends Package Thermometer

Debian GIS DDPO page

Debian GIS DMD page

Debian GIS page on wiki.debian.org

Debian GIS page on wiki.debian.org/Teams

A note on joining:

If you want to join the group you need to register an account on Salsa and ask for being added to the debian-gis-team group, preferrably by sending a short introduction mail to debian-gis@lists.debian.org.
Please don't forget to read the the Debian GIS Policy!