[gdal-dev] About bug fix / patch release policy for older GDAL versions (setuptools >= 58.0 and GDAL <3.3 compatibility issues)

Even Rouault even.rouault at spatialys.com
Fri Mar 25 15:33:52 PDT 2022


ok, just pushed to https://pypi.org/project/GDAL/3.2.2.1/

Le 25/03/2022 à 23:24, snehal waychal a écrit :
>
> Dear Evan,
>
>
> Oh! thank you very much for a fast test release!
>
>
> I can confirm that released version works as expected. And to be sure, 
> here is what/how I have tested:
>
>
>     ```
>
>     $ docker run -it python:3.7.13-slim-bullseye bash
>
>
>     $ apt-get update && apt-get install -y libgdal-dev gcc g++
>
>
>     # let's take newer, problematic setuptools
>
>     $ pip install -U setuptools
>
>     $ pip list
>
>     PackageVersion
>
>     -----------------
>
>     pip22.0.4
>
>     setuptools61.0.0
>
>     wheel0.37.1
>
>
>     # existing release from pypi.org <http://pypi.org> fails
>
>
>     $ pip install gdal==3.2.2
>
>
>     Collecting gdal==3.2.2
>
>     Downloading GDAL-3.2.2.tar.gz (601 kB)
>
>     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 601.7/601.7 KB 8.0 MB/s
>     eta 0:00:00
>
>     Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
>
>     error: subprocess-exited-with-error
>
>
>     × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
>
>     │ exit code: 1
>
>     ╰─> [6 lines of output]
>
>     WARNING: numpy not available!Array support will not be enabled
>
>     /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py:275:
>     UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'use_2to3_fixers'
>
>     warnings.warn(msg)
>
>     /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py:275:
>     UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'use_2to3_exclude_fixers'
>
>     warnings.warn(msg)
>
>     error in GDAL setup command: use_2to3 is invalid.
>
>     [end of output]
>
>
>     note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a
>     problem with pip.
>
>     error: metadata-generation-failed
>
>
>     × Encountered error while generating package metadata.
>
>     ╰─> See above for output.
>
>
>     note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
>
>     hint: See above for details.
>
>     # installing newer one from test.pypi.org <http://test.pypi.org>
>     works fine!
>
>     $ pip install -i https://test.pypi.org/simple/ GDAL==3.2.2.1
>
>
>     Looking in indexes: https://test.pypi.org/simple/
>
>     Collecting GDAL==3.2.2.1
>
>     Downloading
>     https://test-files.pythonhosted.org/packages/b7/02/4356dbdabf8f4fa898fe2378c8c096df3da254508ec8bc0663920cf4b92d/GDAL-3.2.2.1.tar.gz
>     (600 kB)
>
>     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 600.9/600.9 KB 8.2 MB/s
>     eta 0:00:00
>
>     Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done
>
>     Building wheels for collected packages: GDAL
>
>     Building wheel for GDAL (setup.py) ... done
>
>     Created wheel for GDAL:
>     filename=GDAL-3.2.2.1-cp37-cp37m-linux_x86_64.whl size=816416
>     sha256=0209dc3c56cd626137c53187c4a8fb7758587c9030cf8d479d8a2c7864fd5c77
>
>     Stored in directory:
>     /root/.cache/pip/wheels/4b/f2/02/0ca533c034c5cc5840d619cd7004f32d3362c04a1c1500d0a1
>
>     Successfully built GDAL
>
>     Installing collected packages: GDAL
>
>     Successfully installed GDAL-3.2.2.1
>
>     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:https://pip.pypa.io/warnings/venv
>
>
>     ```
>
>
> I hope this gives us some confidence that we are on a right track! :)
>
>
> If I should test something else, please let me know! Looking forward 
> for the release on the pypi.org <http://pypi.org>.
>
>
> Thank you again!!
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Snehal
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 1:45 PM Even Rouault 
> <even.rouault at spatialys.com> wrote:
>
>     ok, I missed this was on the pypi package.
>
>     I've tried to make a patch over 3.2.2. For now, I've uploaded it
>     only to https://test.pypi.org/project/GDAL/3.2.2.1/ . Can you test
>     that and confirm that works properly ? If so, I'll push it to pypi
>     official.
>
>     I've tracked the changes in a patch/3.2.2.1 <http://3.2.2.1>
>     branch, sitting for now in my fork:
>
>     https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/compare/v3.2.2..rouault:patch/3.2.2.1?expand=1
>
>     I'll push that to OSGeo/gdal as well and tag once confirmed things
>     work fine
>
>     Hoping I'm not going into troubles doing this stuff outside of our
>     usual release processes...
>
>     Even
>
>     Le 25/03/2022 à 13:13, snehal waychal a écrit :
>>
>>     Dear Even, dear Bas,
>>
>>
>>     Thank you very much for the quick response and highlightingthe
>>     Debian/Ubuntu release policy aspects. And also about the link to
>>     the ubuntugis-unstable PPA.
>>
>>
>>     >/what you discuss here is all about the patch & backport policy
>>     of the/
>>
>>     >/Debian GDAL package. You can try to file a bug to Debian and
>>     point to/
>>
>>     >/the patch you'd want to see backported,/
>>
>>
>>     But just to be sure I haven’t misunderstoodyour response or
>>     misrepresented the original issue. The patch release I described
>>     is also needed in the official releases of the GDAL **python**
>>     package. If I am not mistaken, the GDAL team is taking care of
>>     source distributions on https://pypi.org/project/GDAL/
>>     <https://pypi.org/project/GDAL/>. 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.
>>
>>
>>     So, if we could make a new patch release of the/*python* package
>>     of GDAL/ and push the sdist package to pypi.org <http://pypi.org>
>>     (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
>>     pypi.org <http://pypi.org>. (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).
>>
>>
>>     Hope I am not missing something obvious here. Please let me know.
>>
>>
>>     Thank you again!
>>
>>
>>     Regards,
>>
>>     Snehal
>>
>>
>>     On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 12:29 PM Sebastiaan Couwenberg
>>     <sebastic at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>
>>         On 3/25/22 12:07, Even Rouault wrote:
>>         > what you discuss here is all about the patch & backport
>>         policy of the
>>         > Debian GDAL package. You can try to file a bug to Debian
>>         and point to
>>         > the patch you'd want to see backported, but I can't promise
>>         if there
>>         > would be interest in their maintenance team to create an
>>         updated package
>>         > with it (my understanding is that even if we'd release a
>>         new 3.2.x patch
>>         > release, it wouldn't be packaged in LTS distributions. I'm
>>         not sure how
>>         > much of that is linked to Debian policy or availability of
>>         people that
>>         > do the work)
>>
>>         Packages in Debian stable releases only get updates to fix
>>         bugs of
>>         severity important or higher [0]. GDAL patch releases also
>>         contain
>>         changes for lower severity issues, it's not worth the effort
>>         to vet all
>>         those changes. Any changes to packages in stable also risk
>>         introducing
>>         regressions which are highly undesirable in LTS releases
>>         known for their
>>         stability.
>>
>>         People should be maintaining their own packaging repositories
>>         where they
>>         host packages with changes for their needs that cannot be easily
>>         upstreamed to the package in the distribution itself.
>>         Scratching your
>>         own itch was a corner stone of Open Source that people are
>>         seemingly
>>         forgetting or never having known about in the first place.
>>
>>         [0]
>>         https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#special-case-uploads-to-the-stable-and-oldstable-distributions
>>
>>         Kind Regards,
>>
>>         Bas
>>
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