Re: GEOS 3.6.2

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic@xs4all.nl>]

On 12/28/2017 02:02 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> ossim (2.2.0-1) and otb (6.2.0+dfsg-2) have been uploaded to unstable in
> preparation of the geos transition.
> 
> grass (7.2.2-2) has also been uploaded to unstable, to no longer link to
> the GEOS C++ library which it doesn't use.
> 
> ossim is the only remaining package which depends on the libgeos-3.5.1,
> so instead of a transition I've uploaded geos (3.6.2-1) to unstable and
> requested an NMU for ossim (#885601).

If people care about getting GEOS 3.6.2 into Ubuntu bionic, they need to
prod the Ubuntu developers to update the shark package to 3.1.4+ds1-1.
Ubuntu has diverged from Debian by applying Ubuntu specific changes
which block autosync from Debian. [0]

shark (3.1.4+ds1-1) is required to build OTB successfully with GCC 7.
otb (6.2.0+dfsg-2) is stuck in proposed because it FTBFS due to assuming
shark supports GCC 7 now, as it does in Debian. The patches in otb
(6.2.0+dfsg-2) are required to build successfully with OSSIM 2.2.0.

ossim (2.2.1-1) is still in proposed because britney is waiting for
autopkgtest results [1]. The missing otb builds are likely to block
migration of ossim (2.2.1-1) too.

[0] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shark
[1]
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/bionic/update_excuses.html#ossim

Kind Regards,

Bas