[El] GDAL 1.7.3 in elgis-testing

[Ralph Apel]

The easiest way to remove the maven2 dependency from gdal-java is
omitting it. That would end up in gdal-java being another one among
several dozens (60+) of packages there around which are
providing /usr/share/maven2 and /usr/share/maven2/poms ...
Not perfect but practical.

The dependency is really an optional one. Requiring maven2 is only for
the purpose of NOT providing /usr/share/maven2/ etc.

ANOTHER option would be to package the poms and depmap frags into an
additional subpackage "gdal-java-poms" or "gdal-java-maven2", sort of
"If you want to use gdal-java properly with maven2, you should install
gdal-java-maven2, which of course requires maven2". That would be clean.
 
On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 10:25 +0100, Mathieu Baudier wrote:
> >> A complementary idea: maybe we could add a package gdal-jpp-compat (or
> >> something like that) in elgis-plus (which will probably have a
> >> dependency on JPP).
> >
> > This cool, but library names and common functions are still an issue,
> > they can't co-exist. I am working on it.
> 
> Ok, for this and the rest, take your time, and when you have an
> approach/packages, we will work on integrating them for EL 5.
> 
> > This is for sure we should, a clean version.
> 
> So for now, we only need to find a clean way to remove this maven2
> dependency and I'll do a build so that we have a complete GDAL 1.7.3
> in elgis.
> 
> (The issue we are discussing here is only related to gdal-java, the
> other gdal* packages seem to work just fine so far)
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