Thank you Bas for the detailed information. Best, Angelos
On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 8:17 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > OSSIM has finally published a new release, but unfortunately in its > currently form it's unsuitable for inclusion in Debian. > > The most problematic issue the embedded copy of libjsoncpp without an > option to build with the system provided library. [0] > > The library and the apps cannot be built in the same process any more, > requiring the library to be available before the apps can be built > (required at configure). [1] I've disabled building of the apps for now, > meaning that ossim-core will no longer be provided. > > Finally the changes between 1.8.20-3 and 2.2.0 imply that the license > was changed from MIT to LGPL, but this is not properly reflected in the > source. [2] > > Until these issues are resolved the ossim package cannot be updated to 2.x. > > The new ossim release is required for GEOS 3.6, so when osm2pgsql 4.x is > available and OSSIM 2.x still suffers from these issues I'm likely to > remove OSSIM from Debian and OTB along with it. For the sake of the > latter I'd rather not have to take this route, but I don't have a lot of > faith left in the OSSIM project. > > If you care about OSSIM and/or OTB in Debian, please help resolve these > issues in OSSIM. > > [0] https://github.com/ossimlabs/ossim/issues/115 > [1] https://github.com/ossimlabs/ossim/issues/114 > [2] https://github.com/ossimlabs/ossim/issues/113 > > Kind Regards, > > Bas > > -- > GPG Key ID: 4096R/6750F10AE88D4AF1 > Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146 50D1 6750 F10A E88D 4AF1 > > -- Angelos Tzotsos, PhD OSGeo Charter Member http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
