[QGIS-Developer] Good news: next Ubuntu version shipping with gdal3/proj6

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 2/22/20 4:31 PM, Mathieu Pellerin wrote:
> Will QGIS 3.4.15 be built against GDAL 2 or GDAL 3 / PROJ 6 for ubuntu
> focal? If it's the latter, that's likely very problematic (Nyall can
> confirm).

Currently PROJ 6 & GDAL 3, see:

 https://launchpadlibrarian.net/462211122/buildlog_ubuntu-focal-amd64.qgis_3.4.15+dfsg-1ubuntu2_BUILDING.txt.gz

> We learned the hard way there is no practical way to ship a reliable 3.4.X
> build against GDAL 3 / PROJ 6.

That's why Ubuntu users should use to packages from qgis.org instead of
those in Ubuntu itself, as I mentioned before:

> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020, 17:15 Bas Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> On 2020-02-18 11:00, Mathieu Pellerin wrote:
>>> Any plan to update QGIS to 3.10? 3.4 reaches it's end of life in the
>>> coming
>>> few days.
>>
>> Yes, but this will probably be too late for focal, as recently discussed
>> on the Debian GIS list:
>>
>>   https://lists.debian.org/debian-gis/2020/01/msg00000.html
>>
>> QGIS 3.10.3 (the first 3.10 in the Long-Term Repo which the package in
>> Debian tracks) is (now) scheduled for release on the 21st and the Debian
>> import freeze for focal is on the 27th. I may not be able to get QGIS
>> 3.10 into Debian unstable (from which Ubuntu syncs by default) before
>> the import freeze, e.g. if it takes more than a few days for the FTP
>> masters to review the package in the NEW queue. Another possibility is
>> that the build fails on certain architectures which will prevent the
>> package in Ubuntu from moving out of the proposed pocket. The 3.10.3
>> release was scheduled on the 27th before, as mentioned on the debian-gis
>> list, that would have made it pretty much impossible to get it into
>> focal.
>>
>> Because there is no one that actively maintains the geospatial packages
>> in Ubuntu, QGIS and JOSM users should use the packages provided from
>> their upstream repos instead which are actively updated with new
>> releases.

qgis (3.10.3+dfsg-1~exp1) is in the NEW queue since yesterday, if it
makes it out of NEW and into unstable before the 27th it will likely be
synced into focal automatically. If not, someone who cares about qgis in
Ubuntu should work with the Ubuntu people to get it in after the Debian
Import Freeze.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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