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
>
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