I understand, thanks Alec. Not a nice situation, especially because their changes seem useful overall.
All the best. On 08/24/2018 09:41 AM, Alec Leamas wrote: > Hi Paulo! > > On 24/08/18 09:01, Paolo Cavallini wrote: >> Hi Alec, >> >> thanks for this, a much welcomed effort. AFAIK, there is an issue with a >> few libraries (most notably GDAL) embedded with some modifications not >> pushed upstream. I tried to convince authors to merge > > They will not merge, full stop. So, I have raised the issue on > debian-devel [1], and as I understand the conclusion correctly bundling > *could* be accepted in cases like this. > > The bundling situation in described in [2]. We need to have an overall > agreement on this; neither I nor upstream are willing to undertake this > if the requirement is to unbundle the "complicated" libs according to [2] > > > Cheers! > --alec > > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/08/msg00333.html > [2] https://github.com/OpenCPN/OpenCPN/issues/1124 > -- Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=IT&q=qgis,arcgis
