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    <p>ok, just pushed to <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://pypi.org/project/GDAL/3.2.2.1/">https://pypi.org/project/GDAL/3.2.2.1/</a><br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 25/03/2022 à 23:24, snehal waychal a
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        <p
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          Neue"">Dear Evan,</p>
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        <p
style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
          Neue"">Oh! thank you very much for a fast test release!</p>
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style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
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        <p
style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
          Neue"">I can confirm that released version works as
          expected. And to be sure, here is what/how I have tested:</p>
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style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
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          40px;border:none;padding:0px">
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394">```</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394">$ docker run -it
              python:3.7.13-slim-bullseye bash</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue";min-height:15px"><font color="#0b5394"><br>
            </font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394">$ apt-get update
              && apt-get install -y libgdal-dev gcc g++</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue";min-height:15px"><font color="#0b5394"><br>
            </font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394"># let's take newer,
              problematic setuptools</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394">$ pip install -U
              setuptools</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394">$ pip list</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394">Package<span
                class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span
                class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">     <span
                  class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Version</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394">----------<span
                class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span
                class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">   <span
                  class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>-------</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394">pip<span
                class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span
                class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">               <span
                  class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>22.0.4</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394">setuptools<span
                class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">   <span
                  class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>61.0.0</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394">wheel<span
                class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">           <span
                  class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>0.37.1</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue";min-height:15px"><font color="#0b5394"><br>
            </font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394"># existing release from <a
                href="http://pypi.org" moz-do-not-send="true">pypi.org</a>
              fails</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue";min-height:15px"><font color="#0b5394"><br>
            </font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394">$ pip install gdal==3.2.2</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue";min-height:15px"><font color="#0b5394"><br>
            </font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394">Collecting gdal==3.2.2</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394"><span
                class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> <span
                  class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Downloading
              GDAL-3.2.2.tar.gz (601 kB)</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394"><span
                class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">    <span
                  class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
              601.7/601.7 KB 8.0 MB/s eta 0:00:00</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394"><span
                class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> <span
                  class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Preparing
              metadata (setup.py) ... error</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394"><span
                class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> <span
                  class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>error:
              subprocess-exited-with-error</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue";min-height:15px"><font color="#0b5394"><br>
            </font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394"><span
                class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> <span
                  class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>×
              python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394"><span
                class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> <span
                  class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>│
              exit code: 1</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394"><span
                class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> <span
                  class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>╰─>
              [6 lines of output]</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394"><span
                class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">     <span
                  class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>WARNING:
              numpy not available!<span
                class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> <span
                  class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Array
              support will not be enabled</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394"><span
                class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">     <span
                  class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py:275:
              UserWarning: Unknown distribution option:
              'use_2to3_fixers'</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394"><span
                class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">       <span
                  class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>warnings.warn(msg)</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394"><span
                class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">     <span
                  class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py:275:
              UserWarning: Unknown distribution option:
              'use_2to3_exclude_fixers'</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394"><span
                class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">       <span
                  class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>warnings.warn(msg)</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394"><span
                class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">     <span
                  class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>error
              in GDAL setup command: use_2to3 is invalid.</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394"><span
                class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">     <span
                  class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>[end
              of output]</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue";min-height:15px"><font color="#0b5394"><br>
            </font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394"><span
                class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> <span
                  class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>note:
              This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not
              a problem with pip.</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394">error:
              metadata-generation-failed</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue";min-height:15px"><font color="#0b5394"><br>
            </font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394">× Encountered error while
              generating package metadata.</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394">╰─> See above for
              output.</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue";min-height:15px"><font color="#0b5394"><br>
            </font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394">note: This is an issue
              with the package mentioned above, not pip.</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394">hint: See above for
              details.</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue";min-height:15px"><span
              class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"><font color="#0b5394"> </font></span></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue";min-height:15px"><span
              class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"><font color="#0b5394"> </font></span></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394"># installing newer one
              from <a href="http://test.pypi.org"
                moz-do-not-send="true">test.pypi.org</a> works fine!</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue";min-height:15px"><span
              class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"><font color="#0b5394"> </font></span></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394">$ pip install -i <a
                href="https://test.pypi.org/simple/"
                moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://test.pypi.org/simple/</a>
              GDAL==3.2.2.1</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394"><br>
            </font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394">Looking in indexes: <a
                href="https://test.pypi.org/simple/"
                moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://test.pypi.org/simple/</a></font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394">Collecting GDAL==3.2.2.1</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394"><span
                class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> <span
                  class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Downloading
              <a
href="https://test-files.pythonhosted.org/packages/b7/02/4356dbdabf8f4fa898fe2378c8c096df3da254508ec8bc0663920cf4b92d/GDAL-3.2.2.1.tar.gz"
                moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://test-files.pythonhosted.org/packages/b7/02/4356dbdabf8f4fa898fe2378c8c096df3da254508ec8bc0663920cf4b92d/GDAL-3.2.2.1.tar.gz</a>
              (600 kB)</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394"><span
                class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">    <span
                  class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
              600.9/600.9 KB 8.2 MB/s eta 0:00:00</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394"><span
                class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> <span
                  class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Preparing
              metadata (setup.py) ... done</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394">Building wheels for
              collected packages: GDAL</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394"><span
                class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> <span
                  class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Building
              wheel for GDAL (setup.py) ... done</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394"><span
                class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> <span
                  class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Created
              wheel for GDAL:
              filename=GDAL-3.2.2.1-cp37-cp37m-linux_x86_64.whl
              size=816416
              sha256=0209dc3c56cd626137c53187c4a8fb7758587c9030cf8d479d8a2c7864fd5c77</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394"><span
                class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> <span
                  class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Stored
              in directory:
/root/.cache/pip/wheels/4b/f2/02/0ca533c034c5cc5840d619cd7004f32d3362c04a1c1500d0a1</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394">Successfully built GDAL</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394">Installing collected
              packages: GDAL</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394">Successfully installed
              GDAL-3.2.2.1</font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394">WARNING: Running pip as
              the 'root' user can result in broken permissions and
              conflicting behaviour with the system package manager. It
              is recommended to use a virtual environment instead:<span
                class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
                href="https://pip.pypa.io/warnings/venv"
                moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://pip.pypa.io/warnings/venv</a></font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue";min-height:15px"><font color="#0b5394"><br>
            </font></p>
          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue""><font color="#0b5394">```</font></p>
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style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
          Neue";min-height:15px"><br>
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        <p
style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
          Neue"">I hope this gives us some confidence that we are
          on a right track! :)<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
        <p
style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
          Neue";min-height:15px"><br>
        </p>
        <p
style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
          Neue"">If I should test something else, please let me
          know! Looking forward for the release on the <a
            href="http://pypi.org" moz-do-not-send="true">pypi.org</a>.</p>
        <p
style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
          Neue";min-height:15px"><br>
        </p>
        <p
style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
          Neue"">Thank you again!!</p>
        <p
style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
          Neue";min-height:15px"><br>
        </p>
        <p
style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica
          Neue"">Regards,</p>
        <p
style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;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 1:45
          PM Even Rouault <<a
            href="mailto:even.rouault@spatialys.com"
            moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">even.rouault@spatialys.com</a>>
          wrote:<br>
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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
                href="https://test.pypi.org/project/GDAL/3.2.2.1/"
                target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
                class="moz-txt-link-freetext">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/<a
                href="http://3.2.2.1" target="_blank"
                moz-do-not-send="true">3.2.2.1</a> branch, sitting for
              now in my fork:<br>
            </p>
            <p><a
href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/compare/v3.2.2..rouault:patch/3.2.2.1?expand=1"
                target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
                class="moz-txt-link-freetext">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>
            </p>
            <p>Hoping I'm not going into troubles doing this stuff
              outside of our usual release processes...</p>
            <p>Even<br>
            </p>
            <div>Le 25/03/2022 à 13:13, snehal waychal a écrit :<br>
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                  <p>Dear Even, dear Bas,</p>
                  <p><br>
                  </p>
                  <p>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>
                  <p><br>
                  </p>
                  <p>><i> what you discuss here is all about the
                      patch & backport policy of the<span> </span></i></p>
                  <p>><i> Debian GDAL package. You can try to file a
                      bug to Debian and point to<span> </span></i></p>
                  <p>><i> the patch you'd want to see backported,</i></p>
                  <p><br>
                  </p>
                  <p>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>
                  <p><br>
                  </p>
                  <p>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>
                  <p><br>
                  </p>
                  <p>Hope I am not missing something obvious here.
                    Please let me know.</p>
                  <p><br>
                  </p>
                  <p>Thank you again!</p>
                  <p><br>
                  </p>
                  <p>Regards,</p>
                  <p>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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                    0px
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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href="https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#special-case-uploads-to-the-stable-and-oldstable-distributions"
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                    <br>
                    Kind Regards,<br>
                    <br>
                    Bas<br>
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