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    <p>ok, I missed this was on the pypi package.</p>
    <p>I've tried to make a patch over 3.2.2. For now, I've uploaded it
      only to <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://test.pypi.org/project/GDAL/3.2.2.1/">https://test.pypi.org/project/GDAL/3.2.2.1/</a>  . Can you
      test that and confirm that works properly ? If so, I'll push it to
      pypi official.</p>
    <p>I've tracked the changes in a patch/3.2.2.1 branch, sitting for
      now in my fork:<br>
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    <p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/compare/v3.2.2..rouault:patch/3.2.2.1?expand=1">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/compare/v3.2.2..rouault:patch/3.2.2.1?expand=1</a></p>
    <p>I'll push that to OSGeo/gdal as well and tag once confirmed
      things work fine<br>
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    <p>Hoping I'm not going into troubles doing this stuff outside of
      our usual release processes...</p>
    <p>Even<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 25/03/2022 à 13:13, snehal waychal a
      écrit :<br>
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          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue"">Dear Even, dear Bas,</p>
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style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
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          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue"">Thank you very much for the quick response and
            highlighting<span> </span>the Debian/Ubuntu release policy
            aspects. And also about the link to the ubuntugis-unstable
            PPA.</p>
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style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
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          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue"">><i> what you discuss here is all about the
              patch & backport policy of the<span> </span></i></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue"">><i> Debian GDAL package. You can try to file
              a bug to Debian and point to<span> </span></i></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue"">><i> the patch you'd want to see backported,</i></p>
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style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
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          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue"">But just to be sure I haven’t misunderstood<span> </span>your
            response or misrepresented the original issue. The patch
            release I described is also needed in the official releases
            of the GDAL <b>*python*</b> package. If I am not mistaken,
            the GDAL team is taking care of source distributions on <a
              href="https://pypi.org/project/GDAL/" target="_blank"
              moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="color:rgb(220,161,13)">https://pypi.org/project/GDAL/</span></a>.
            I looked into released pypi versions and if I am not
            mistaken there is no patch release for v3.2.2 with fix for
            setuptools compatibility issue.</p>
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          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue"">So, if we could make a new patch release of the<i>
              *python* package of GDAL</i> and push the sdist package to
            <a href="http://pypi.org" target="_blank"
              moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="color:rgb(220,161,13)">pypi.org</span></a>
            (something like 3.2.2.1, as I described in the previous
            email) then that would also solve the issue. Because as
            python developers, we install *python* packages via
            pip/pipenv/poetry and those package managers would pick the
            new patch release from <a href="http://pypi.org"
              target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                style="color:rgb(220,161,13)">pypi.org</span></a>. (The
            GDAL library component libgdal-dev v3.2.2 will still come
            from the debian system package repo and there is no issue
            with that).<span> </span></p>
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            Neue";min-height:15px"><br>
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          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue"">Hope I am not missing something obvious here.
            Please let me know.</p>
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          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue"">Thank you again!</p>
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            Neue";min-height:15px"><br>
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          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue"">Regards,</p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue"">Snehal</p>
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          <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at
            12:29 PM Sebastiaan Couwenberg <<a
              href="mailto:sebastic@xs4all.nl" target="_blank"
              moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">sebastic@xs4all.nl</a>>
            wrote:<br>
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0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On
            3/25/22 12:07, Even Rouault wrote:<br>
            > what you discuss here is all about the patch &
            backport policy of the <br>
            > Debian GDAL package. You can try to file a bug to
            Debian and point to <br>
            > the patch you'd want to see backported, but I can't
            promise if there <br>
            > would be interest in their maintenance team to create
            an updated package <br>
            > with it (my understanding is that even if we'd release
            a new 3.2.x patch <br>
            > release, it wouldn't be packaged in LTS distributions.
            I'm not sure how <br>
            > much of that is linked to Debian policy or availability
            of people that <br>
            > do the work)<br>
            <br>
            Packages in Debian stable releases only get updates to fix
            bugs of <br>
            severity important or higher [0]. GDAL patch releases also
            contain <br>
            changes for lower severity issues, it's not worth the effort
            to vet all <br>
            those changes. Any changes to packages in stable also risk
            introducing <br>
            regressions which are highly undesirable in LTS releases
            known for their <br>
            stability.<br>
            <br>
            People should be maintaining their own packaging
            repositories where they <br>
            host packages with changes for their needs that cannot be
            easily <br>
            upstreamed to the package in the distribution itself.
            Scratching your <br>
            own itch was a corner stone of Open Source that people are
            seemingly <br>
            forgetting or never having known about in the first place.<br>
            <br>
            [0] <br>
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            <br>
            Kind Regards,<br>
            <br>
            Bas<br>
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