[GRASS5] 5.3.0 release

[Buchan Milne]

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H Bowman wrote:
>>>I was thinking if the 5.3.x series is going to be identifiably
>>>separate from the 5.0.x series, we might as well go ahead and remove
>>>the internal copy of PROJ that is in GRASS and make an external PROJ
>>>installation an absolute requirement.
>
> ...
>
>>>Some features such as NTv2 grid transformations are only supported
>>>in the latest PROJ.4.4.7 and not in the private GRASS copy of PROJ.
>>
>>For me it sounds good. There is no much point in maintaining a
>>partially outdated PROJ4 in a 5.3/5.4 release.
>>One thing we should have in mind is if Debian/SuSe/Mandrake/Redhat/...
>>have a RPM package and, if not, if we could suggest to add it.
>
> Mandrake 9.1/cooker has a PROJ 4.4.5 RPM pre-packaged. Maybe the fine
> folks who did the GRASS package for Mandrake could submit an updated
> proj package as well?  http://rpms.mandrakeclub.com/rpms/proj.html
> Would this Mandrake RPM generic enough to work on Redhat/SuSE?

I am the grass maintainer for Mandrake, and among other packages related
to grass, I also maintain gdal. gdal-1.1.9 requires an updated proj, but
there were a number of other packages I would like to have updated
(libtiff to 3.6, geotiff to 1.2.0) so I can enable geotiff support in
gdal. As such, I have not uploaded my packages to contrib yet, and the
package blocking this all (libtiff) is in main, so I can't update it. If
we can't update libtiff before release, I will update proj and gdal
(without geotiff support).

However, I can provide proj-4.4.7 (have them available now), gdal-1.1.9
(there is still one issue to fix for this package) etc for Mandrake 9.1,
in fact it is likely necessary to have full functionality from the
grass51 cvs packages available on my site.

Regards,
Buchan

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