Re: libLAS 1.8.0

[Ross Gammon <ross@the-gammons.net>]

On 08/04/2014 03:18 AM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> As you may have seen, I've updated the liblas packaging with the 1.8.0
> upstream release.

Saw that.

> 
> The remaining patches were forwarded upstream, and quickly applied
> there. A 1.8.1 release may be out soon which will include this changes,
> but no sooner than one week from now.
> 
> Howard Butler asked if we wanted the .1 release before the freeze, but I
> don't think that needed already. I also won't have much time the next
> two weeks for packaging as I need to dedicate that time to my NM process.
> 
> Since pktools is the only reverse dependency of liblas at this time, I
> don't think we need to do more than verify that it still works with
> libLAS 1.8.0 after which we can move it from experimental to unstable
> and request a binNMU for pktools from the release team.
> 

Will hopefully start testing that later today.

> If libLAS 1.8.1 is released soon, we may want to upload that to unstable
> instead.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Bas
>