On 12/02/16 18:52, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > On 12-02-16 18:28, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: >> On 06/02/16 17:43, Bas Couwenberg wrote: >>> Package: release.debian.org >>> For the Debian GIS team I'd like to transition to the recently released >>> GDAL 1.11.4. Only the packages using C++ symbols need to be rebuilt. >>> >>> GDAL 2.0.2 was released along with 1.11.4, but we still don't have >>> support for GDAL 2.0 in all reverse dependencies. Since the transition >>> to GDAL 1.11.3, support for GDAL 2.0 was added to all reverse >>> depedencies except Fiona [0]. Upstream has recently included changes for >>> GDAL 2.0, but these differ from the initial GDAL 2.0 changes available >>> as a patch in #802808. The improved GDAL 2.0 changes are entangled with >>> other changes for the upcoming Fiona 1.7 release, which I've not been >>> able to successfully backport. This will not be a blocker for the GDAL >>> 2.0 transition, as discussed with the maintainer on the debian-gis list >>> [1]. >>> >>> Because the transition for GDAL 1.11.4 is ready now, I'd like to do that >>> first before preparing the transition to GDAL 2.0. All reverse >>> dependencies rebuilt successfully with GDAL 1.11.4, the summary of >>> rebuilds is included below. >>> >> >> This would get entangled with the openmpi transition, so it will have to >> wait. >> After openmpi, I'm thinking about doing libpng, but we'll see. > > Waiting for openmpi is no problem, but if the libpng transition is going > to happen first, I think it's better to use that time the prepare the > transition to GDAL 2.0 instead of 1.11.4. Last week the last blocker was > resolved [0], so we're also pretty much ready to transition to GDAL 2.0. > The 2.0 packages will have to pass the NEW queue again, because of the > delay that will cause I've opted to transition to 1.11.4 which is ready now. > > If you can confirm that the libpng transition is going to happen first, > I'll upload the packages for GDAL 2.0 to experimental, and we can switch > to that in unstable after the libpng transition and the new gdal has > passed NEW.
Sure, let's do that. Cheers, Emilio
