[gdal-dev] GDAL Debian packaging and Parquet

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 4/16/26 5:30 PM, Even Rouault via gdal-dev wrote:
> I saw from https://salsa.debian.org/debian-gis-team/gdal/-/commits/experimental that you've attempted to add Parquet support (I'm thrilled to see that parquet is now packaged for Debian!), but reverted. I'm curious why
> 
> I just tried locally in a debian:unstable Docker image, and it builds and works fine for me (passes unit tests). In addition to libparquet-dev you also want to add  libarrow-dataset-dev and libarrow-acero-dev for full support.

 From my not yet sent draft to debian-gis@:

"
  I had initially enabled the Parquet driver now that apache-arrow is in the archive, but it turns out to only be available on 64-bit little endian architectures.

  With GDAL being a core geospatial library I don't want architecture specific dependencies, and recursively removing the rdeps is far too invasive.

  So I've dropped the Parquet driver again.

  Users who want the driver are encouraged to help get the apache-arrow package available on all release architectures.
"

Kind Regards,

Bas

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