[gdal-dev] GDAL 3.2.2 RC1 available

Even Rouault even.rouault at spatialys.com
Fri Mar 5 13:49:29 PST 2021


> It would be nice if 3.2.2rc1 unpacked to 3.2.2rc1 instead of 3.2.2,
> because the obvious thing for me to do is just change the version in the
> package control file and rebuild, but it unpacks to a place not matching
> the tarball name.  It's easy enough for me to rename tit, but then I
> have a file that looks like the release but isn't.  I realize the other
> half of the people probably wouldn't like it with the rc1 in the
> directory name, but just thought I'd mention my experience.

The current behavior is intended : the idea is that the content of the 
.tar.gz should be unmodified (ie binary identical) if we promote the 
release candidate as final, so we must put the final directory name in 
it. Promotion just consists in renaming the archive filename.

Even

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