Frank Warmerdam wrote:
I consider this problem very serious, and the longer that GDAL 1.7.0
is in use the more of these corrupt Imagine files will be produced and
cause problems for the world. For that reason, I would like to press
ahead to produce a GDAL 1.7.1 release soon, and to mark GDAL 1.7.0
deprecated
due to this serious bug. Does anyone feel this is overkill?
Are there any other high priority fixes folks would like to see in a
GDAL 1.7.1
release? I am thinking of preparing an RC on Monday if there is no
objection.
I am not able to judge the importance of that HFA issue, but I am +1 on
rushing out a 1.7.1 with that single fix if you feel it's worthwhile.
With respect to calling a release deprecated, doesn't the production of
a point release implicitly deprecate the previous releases of the same
stable branch in most users mind? I have no objection but am not sure of
the value of calling 1.7.0 deprecated since I don't think distribution
maintainers such as DebianGIS or UbuntuGIS have a mechanism to deprecate
a package anyway (at best they can make a patch for the release I
think). That being said, GDAL 1.7.0 has not been picked up yet by
DebianGIS and UbuntuGIS due to some build issues, so they will be able
to jump straight to 1.7.1 in this specific case. I can't speak for the
other distributions.
Daniel
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Daniel Morissette
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