Bug#989597: release.debian.org: upgrade issue: non-coinstallability of libgdal20 and libgdal28
On 6/11/21 8:49 PM, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> On 2021-06-09 12:41:29 +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>> On 6/9/21 12:11 PM, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
>>> On 08/06/2021 11.56, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
>>>> gdal can rename gdal-data to gdal3-data, build with
>>>> --datadir=/sur/share/gdal3 and drop the Breaks on libgdal20.
>>>> Thus libgdal20 + gdal-data from buster should be co-installable with
>>>> libgdal28 + gdal3-data from bullseye and survive the upgrade if needed.
>>>>
>>>> A patch doing this is attached, I'm now testing the upgrade paths
>>>> (along the introduction of the libhdf5*-103 metapackages).
>>>
>>> If the gdal-data issue is solved, the next problem shows up:
>>>
>>> libgdal20 Depends: libogdi3.2
>>> libgdal28 Depends: libogdi4.1
>>>
>>> but the two ogdi library packages are not co-installable (both ship
>>> plugins in the same unversioned path).
>>>
>>> So even if we fix hdf5, libgdal20 is unlikely to be able to survive
>>> upgrades from buster. (Sime something that was built against libgdal20
>>> in buster now likely depends on libgdal28 in bullseye)
>>> But I'd still like to add a Breaks: libgdal20 to libgdal28 to make this
>>> explicit, since transitive Breaks don't work well.
>>
>> I'm only willing to update gdal in unstable if the 3.2.2+dfsg-1 changes
>> don't need to be reverted. Since that goes against the freeze policy,
>> that's highly unlikely as the RMs seem unwilling to make exceptions.
>
> Is 3.2.2 a bugfix only release?
It is. As mentioned in its NEWS:
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.2.2/gdal/NEWS
> Are there any changes in 3.2.2 that go
> beyond targetted fixes?
I'd say no, see:
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/compare/v3.2.1...v3.2.2
> Is there a policy that gdal upstream follows for
> picking patches for a bug fix release?
Its not codified, but upstream is sane with the commits to their
maintenance branches.
Kind Regards,
Bas
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