Re: GDAL 2.3.1

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic@xs4all.nl>]

On 06/30/2018 07:57 AM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> GDAL 2.3.1 has been released and is available in unstable. Not
> transition was required, the virtual ABI dependency was kept at gdal-2-3-0.
> 
> Because the gdal build triggered autopkgtests for r-cran-mi which failed
> due to r-base-core also being updated, testing migration is penalized by
> 10 days, so it will take 15 days instead of 5 (or even 2) for the gdal
> package to migrate to testing.
> 
> The autopkgtest infrastructure is nice, but its current implementation
> is somewhat lacking. Its inability to only update a single package to
> pinpoint the actual package that caused test regressions being the most
> annoying.

Looks like somebody intervened, and the autopkgtest regression for
r-cran-mi no longer penalizes gdal. Instead of 10 days added, 3 were
subtracted, which allowed gdal & libgdal-grass to migrate to testing
already.

Kind Regards,

Bas