Re: [Pkg-grass-general] gdal/grass -- need your comments

[Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam@pobox.com>]

Silke Reimer wrote:
> Some remarks to the current packages:
>
> - Frank, I renamed the gdal_GRASS-library to libgdal1grass since
>   this reflects the way libraries are handled in debian. I hope this
>   is OK. The second issue is, that we probably need to build a
>   development package for gdalgrass to get the package into debian.
>   But since we still have no grass 5.7 package in debian there is no
>   need to hurry.

Silke,

Unfortunately, this will cause the grass driver plugin to not work
properly.  The code scans the target directory looking for "gdal_*.so".
Then after loading it, it looks for an entry point Register* based
on the shared library name.  So, it is necessary to retain the
exact name gdal_GRASS.so as things stands.

I'm sorry this doesn't follow Debian conventions, but you should
keep in mind this is really a "plugin" not a library that anyone
could link against in a meaningful fashion.

Best regards,

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