Hi Bas, > The first beta for GDAL 2.2.0 has been released, and the gdal package in > experimental has been updated.
Thanks. That's great ! > > While we have librasterlite2 in the archive, the RC0 version doesn't > have the required functions to enable the support in GDAL. Yes, the future librasterlite2 1.1 will be needed. Sandro Furieri told me that a 1.1.0-RC0 should be released rather soon. > > We do have Fyba, so the SOSI support was enabled. > > We also have SFCGAL, but since many users complain about the > OpenSceneGraph dependency chain pulled in via libsfcgal, I've not > enabled the support for now. Once the new SFCGAL release is out which > splits the OSG support into a separate library, we can reconsider > enabling the support in GDAL. Development of SFCGAL is not very active, > which doesn't inspire confidence in its future supportability in PostGIS > & GDAL. > > Because of the minor version bump, now was a good time to move the data > files (in /usr/share/gdal/<MAJOR>.<MINOR>) from libgdal20 to its own > architecture independent gdal-data package (like libproj & proj-data). > This leaves only the shared library in libgdal20 which is more > appropriate. A hint just in case (I didn't look how the dependency was expressed): the data package should be considered almost as mandatory when you install the library, otherwise many parts will not work properly. > A nice side effect will be that eventually many systems > will have the gdal-data package installed likely making gdal an key > package (exempt from testing auto-removal) as proj is also thanks to > proj-data. Not sure to have understood what you meant. Even -- Spatialys - Geospatial professional services http://www.spatialys.com
