Bug#866797: transition: gdal
Control: forwarded -1 https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/gdal-2.1.2.html
On 01/07/17 21:17, Bas Couwenberg wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: transition
>
> For the Debian GIS team I'd like to transition to GDAL 2.2.1.
>
> Like the previous transition to GDAL 2.1.2 (#842288), there is no SONAME
> bump, only the virtual ABI package changed to account for the C++ symbol
> changes.
>
> All reverse dependencies rebuilt successfully with GDAL 2.2.1 from
> experimental as summarized below, except rasterio & vtk6.
>
> rasterio cannot be built yet because python-numpy hasn't been built with
> Python 3.6 yet as part of the python3-defaults transition (#866335).
> rasterio built successfully with Python 3.5 and GDAL 2.2.1~rc1, so this
> will likely be resolved with the rebuild of python-numpy.
>
> vtk6 FTBFS due to missing build dependencies: texlive-math-extra.
> The recent texlive-extra source packages no longer build with binary
> package. Dropping the build dependency was sufficient to build vtk6
> successfully with GDAL 2.2.1. The patch has been submitted in #866723.
>
> A new revision of qgis has been uploaded to unstable which includes the
> changes from 2.14.16 (currently in NEW) for GDAL 2.2 support, which
> allow the package the build successfully with GDAL 2.2.1 too.
>
>
> libgdal-grass doesn't need a binNMU as the 2.2.1 version will be
> uploaded to unstable instead. liblas likewise doesn't need a binNMU,
> the version is experimental will be moved to unstable instead.
>
> Please also binNMU mapnik in experimental as part of the transition.
Let's wait a bit for this, I want the octave transition to finish
first (and to make sure the python3.6 one won't be a problem). In
the meantime you can get vtk6 fixed and qgis accepted.
Cheers,
Emilio
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