Bug#813916: transition: gdal
Control: forwarded -1 https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/gdal-1.11.4.html
On 06/02/16 17:43, Bas Couwenberg wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: transition
>
> For the Debian GIS team I'd like to transition to the recently released
> GDAL 1.11.4. Only the packages using C++ symbols need to be rebuilt.
>
> GDAL 2.0.2 was released along with 1.11.4, but we still don't have
> support for GDAL 2.0 in all reverse dependencies. Since the transition
> to GDAL 1.11.3, support for GDAL 2.0 was added to all reverse
> depedencies except Fiona [0]. Upstream has recently included changes for
> GDAL 2.0, but these differ from the initial GDAL 2.0 changes available
> as a patch in #802808. The improved GDAL 2.0 changes are entangled with
> other changes for the upcoming Fiona 1.7 release, which I've not been
> able to successfully backport. This will not be a blocker for the GDAL
> 2.0 transition, as discussed with the maintainer on the debian-gis list
> [1].
>
> Because the transition for GDAL 1.11.4 is ready now, I'd like to do that
> first before preparing the transition to GDAL 2.0. All reverse
> dependencies rebuilt successfully with GDAL 1.11.4, the summary of
> rebuilds is included below.
>
> The spatialite->postgis->gdal->spatialite circular dependency was
> initially preventing the rebuild of the reverse dependencies with the
> new GDAL. Because this was causing more issues [3][4], I've dropped the
> liblwgeom dependency from spatialite in 4.3.0a-5.
>
> Because of the postgis->sfcgal->openscenegraph dependency chain, it's
> important to rebuild openscenegraph with the new gdal before rebuilding
> postgis, otherwise the old gdal will be pulled in via openscenegraph.
>
> osrm (4.9.1+ds-1~exp1) only needs to be rebuilt in experimental.
>
> libgdal-grass (1.11.3-3) doesn't need to be rebuilt, 1.11.4-1 will be
> uploaded instead. It requires liblas & grass to be rebuilt first.
This would get entangled with the openmpi transition, so it will have to wait.
After openmpi, I'm thinking about doing libpng, but we'll see.
Cheers,
Emilio
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