Bug#866797: transition: gdal
Control: tags -1 confirmed
On 04/07/17 21:43, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> Control: forwarded -1 https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/gdal-2.1.2.html
>
> On 01/07/17 21:17, 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 GDAL 2.2.1.
>>
>> Like the previous transition to GDAL 2.1.2 (#842288), there is no SONAME
>> bump, only the virtual ABI package changed to account for the C++ symbol
>> changes.
>>
>> All reverse dependencies rebuilt successfully with GDAL 2.2.1 from
>> experimental as summarized below, except rasterio & vtk6.
>>
>> rasterio cannot be built yet because python-numpy hasn't been built with
>> Python 3.6 yet as part of the python3-defaults transition (#866335).
>> rasterio built successfully with Python 3.5 and GDAL 2.2.1~rc1, so this
>> will likely be resolved with the rebuild of python-numpy.
>>
>> vtk6 FTBFS due to missing build dependencies: texlive-math-extra.
>> The recent texlive-extra source packages no longer build with binary
>> package. Dropping the build dependency was sufficient to build vtk6
>> successfully with GDAL 2.2.1. The patch has been submitted in #866723.
>>
>> A new revision of qgis has been uploaded to unstable which includes the
>> changes from 2.14.16 (currently in NEW) for GDAL 2.2 support, which
>> allow the package the build successfully with GDAL 2.2.1 too.
>>
>>
>> libgdal-grass doesn't need a binNMU as the 2.2.1 version will be
>> uploaded to unstable instead. liblas likewise doesn't need a binNMU,
>> the version is experimental will be moved to unstable instead.
>>
>> Please also binNMU mapnik in experimental as part of the transition.
>
> Let's wait a bit for this, I want the octave transition to finish
> first (and to make sure the python3.6 one won't be a problem). In
> the meantime you can get vtk6 fixed and qgis accepted.
octave is in and the python transition shouldn't be a problem anymore, so please
go ahead if you're ready to do the necessary NMUs.
Cheers,
Emilio
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