[Xastir] Raspian Builds

[Tom Russo]

Pretty much for the same reason that there used to be separate build 
instructions for every single release of Ubuntu from 6.04 all the way to
the present:  because someone wrote it that way back when the earth was still
cooling, and it stuck.

There may have been a time when the two systems were more distinct, so it
may have made sense at the time.  If it doesn't anymore, "someone" should
clean it up.  If we consolidate, then at least the title of the Ubuntu
page should be changed to "Ubuntu and Rasbian" --- lest someone less familiar
with the underlying similarities not find the instructions.  Perhaps even 
"Debian, Ubuntu, Raspbian, and other Debian variants" would be an appropriate
consolidation.

The problem here is that while this is a wiki that is supposed to be useful
for community-edited documentation, we had such a horrid problem with 
spam and vandalism years ago that we had to lock it down so that 
"the community" can't just create an account and start editing.  So now, 
getting a wiki account takes an email request from a user, then manual 
intervention by a sysadmin.  

What that means practically is only a few folks actually have edit rights to
the wiki, and the few who do hardly have time to touch it.

According to the user list page on the wiki, you not only have an account
on the wiki, but also edit permissions.  Feel free to clean up the install
notes if you have the time and energy.  

On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 08:50:04AM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <kg4wsv at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> Just curious, why are the raspbian and ubuntu build instructions separate?
> It looks like they could be combined.
> 
> I used the ubuntu instructions (quite possibly by mistake) on my pis
> (definitely stretch, and IIRC jessie as well) and they work with no errors.
> Of course the ubuntu build script doesn't run because the OS matching fails.
> 
> Just tested the two, and the only difference I see is the raspbian script
> leaves out a couple:
> 
>   GeoTiff (USGS Topos & Aerial Photos) ...... : no
>   [...]
>   GPSMan/gpsmanshp (GPS downloads) .......... : no
> 
> Like I said, just curious.  I appreciate both the instructions and the
> scripts.
> 
> -Jason
> kg4wsv
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Tom Russo    KM5VY
Tijeras, NM  

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