Re: [DebianGIS] Summary about libgdal issue for ftp-masters, please contribute and do not break the thread
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 09:58:22AM +0100, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
> I think we need a summary about the libgdal issue to avoid rejecting from ftpmasters for hijacking.
>
> AFAIK, we are going to release a libgdal1.3.1 package (maybe libgdal1.3 could be more appropriate ?)
> to superseed the current sid libgdal due to changes in C++ API. As
> stated by upstream, C++ interface is far from being stabilized and
> currently break things at every new release. The C API is stable, so the
> SONAME do not change. Unfortunately a few packages depends on the C++
> interfaces, so we need to keep in sync things at source level among them, which is suboptimal,
> but better than having programs faulting at every new release of the libgdal program.
>
> Future releases will keep their version in the library pkg name as well.
> Next step will be moving the C++ part in a standalone library pkg, and
> waiting for a final (eventually) stabilzation at upstream level, before reverting
> finally things to a more sane status.
>
> Reference: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-grass-general/2005-December/001498.html
>
>
List of rdepends for current (sid) libgdal1c2a (1.2.6-1.3)
xastir
thuban
python-mapscript
python-gdal
php5-mapscript
php4-mapscript
perl-mapscript
openscenegraph
mapserver-bin
libopenscenegraph1c2
libgrass
libgdal1-grass
libgdal1-dev
libgdal-doc
grass
gdal-bin
cgi-mapserver
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Francesco P. Lovergine
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