[gdal-dev] GDAL 3.8.1 RC1 is available, and motion to approve it

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 11/24/23 13:16, Even Rouault via gdal-dev wrote:
>> The Python utilities are no longer installed with the .py extension, 
>> this broke their use in QGIS when we removed this in the Debian 
>> package some time ago. Don't know if that's still the case. Either 
>> way, this doesn't seem like an appropriate change for a .1 patch release.
> 
> Are you sure about the .py utilities no longer be installed? Because, I 
> see both /usr/bin/gdal2tiles and /usr/bin/gdal2tiles.py installed on 
> Ubuntu 22.04 (before I reverted the change to add the launcher scripts)

Both are installed indeed. I overlooked this when dh_missing failed on 
the executables without extension.

Installing usr/bin/__init__ is still wrong though. Skipping __init__.py 
when creating the console_scripts list may suffice.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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