Bug#813916: transition: gdal
On 12/02/16 18:52, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> On 12-02-16 18:28, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>> On 06/02/16 17:43, Bas Couwenberg wrote:
>>> Package: release.debian.org
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> 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.
>
> Waiting for openmpi is no problem, but if the libpng transition is going
> to happen first, I think it's better to use that time the prepare the
> transition to GDAL 2.0 instead of 1.11.4. Last week the last blocker was
> resolved [0], so we're also pretty much ready to transition to GDAL 2.0.
> The 2.0 packages will have to pass the NEW queue again, because of the
> delay that will cause I've opted to transition to 1.11.4 which is ready now.
>
> If you can confirm that the libpng transition is going to happen first,
> I'll upload the packages for GDAL 2.0 to experimental, and we can switch
> to that in unstable after the libpng transition and the new gdal has
> passed NEW.
Sure, let's do that.
Cheers,
Emilio
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