[gdal-dev] Fedora package status

[Nyall Dawson]

On Sun, 23 Feb 2020 at 23:25, Sandro Mani <manisandro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Nyall
>
> I've started the non-responsive maintainer process for various gis packages last week since they are indeed pretty neglected an am testing the updates here [1]. I'm hoping to finish the process next week and get things up-to-date again.

Great news, thanks for your efforts here!

Let me know if I can do anything to help (even if you just want me to
pester on the bug reports to try to raise the severity of the issues
around these older package versions!)

Nyall

>
> Sandro
>
> [1] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/smani/gisstack/
>
> On 23.02.20 01:45, Nyall Dawson wrote:
>
> Hi list,
>
> Does anyone with any knowledge of the fedora packaging infrastructure
> have any advice for getting the gdal library updated in the fedora
> repos?
>
> Even on the most recent Fedora releases, this is stuck at absolutely
> ancient versions (2.3!).
>
> Worse is that the proj library has been updated, resulting in the
> not-recommended combination of proj 6/gdal 2 (specifically proj 6.2 --
> a version with known critical bugs).
>
> Nyall
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