Re: GEOS version on bookworm
On 7/24/24 5:22 PM, Riivo Kolka wrote:
I had an impression that stable Debian (currently bookworm) packages are
almost never upgraded to the next major or minor upstream version and
almost always are upgraded to the next point/bugfix version. How true is
this in general?
Requirements for stable updates are documented in the developers reference:
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#special-case-uploads-to-the-stable-and-oldstable-distributions
I know that postgresql-15 is the latest 15.7, while GEOS library is 3.11.1
and the latest is 3.11.4.
The release policy for PostgreSQL patch releases are considered strict
enough to be acceptable for Debian stable updates.
GEOS updates bump the (C++ library) SONAME for every patch release which
is not appropriate for Debian stable.
Should someone request an update to a package?
If you need a newer GEOS on bookworm you should backport the package
yourself.
I don't consider the core geospatial libraries appropriate for backports.
Kind Regards,
Bas
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