[DebianGIS] Re: netcdf adoption?
[Paolo Cavallini]
> Hi all.
> netcdf is now 42 days old, and it bolcks gdal, and consequently
> mapserver etc. Is it possible to unlock this situation? Do DDs see
> a way to reliably improve the situation?
Yes, this is annoying. Looking at
<URL:http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=mapserver>, my
best guess is that some of the packages listed there are linked with
the old netcdf or gdal, and need to be rebuilt in sid. I suspect the
easiest way to locate which packages this is, is to try to install all
the packages listed there in a sid chroot, and see if any of them are
uninstallable in sid. Those packages then need a serious bug reported
against them to document the problem, and a rebuild to fix it.
A quick test told me that netcdf-perl have problems:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
netcdf-perl: Depends: netcdfg3 which is a virtual package.
There might be others as well.
> We poor debian users are stuck at gdal 1.2.6, whereas 1.3.1 is
> already 5 months old.
Eh, only those using etch are affected by this. Those using sarge
will not get a new version no matter what we do, and those using sid
can already use it.
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