Re: [Pkg-grass-general] New gdal package

[Steve Halasz <debian@adkgis.org>]

On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 13:31, Silke Reimer wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 11:07:13AM -0500, Steve Halasz wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 08:27, Silke Reimer wrote:
> > > Hallo!
> > > 
> > > I built new gdal 1.2.5 packages which include geos support as well
> > > [1]. I did some tests in pbuilder (checking build dependencies,
> > > installing and uninstalling the packages etc.) It should be ready
> > > for debian sid now. 
> > > 
> > > Jochen, if you think this as well, it would be nice if you could
> > > upload the package to the server. 
> > > 
> > > grass support is of course not available with this gdal package. It
> > > will be a new package gdal-grass which will be responsible for this.
> > > Am I right that the most recent grass package is available at
> > > http://bullhorn.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/ ?
> > 
> > Yes. Did you get the patch for gdal-grass to work against this version
> > that I posted earlier?
> 
> Actually I just rebuild gdal-grass and it did work for me. I still
> would prefer not to be forced to install grass itself to build
> gdal-grass. Building this plugin should only depend on libgrass and
> libgrass-dev.
> 
> Is there a reason why libgrass requires grass to be installed?

Probably not :)

Steve