[GRASS-dev] [release planning] GRASS GIS 8.4.0

Nicklas Larsson n_larsson at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 28 04:03:28 PDT 2024


Markus,

> On 28 Jul 2024, at 11:54, Markus Neteler via grass-dev <grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi devs,
> 
> I just discovered that the tarball no longer contains the version in
> the tarball "grass" subdir (expected "grass-8.4.0"):
> 
> tar tvfz ~/grass-8.4.0.tar.gz  | head
> drwxr-xr-x runner/docker     0 2024-07-27 15:34 grass/
> -rwxr-xr-x runner/docker 458838 2024-07-27 15:32 grass/configure
> -rw-r--r-- runner/docker    778 2024-07-27 15:32 grass/pyproject.toml
> -rw-r--r-- runner/docker   4067 2024-07-27 15:32 grass/CITATION.cff
> -rw-r--r-- runner/docker    436 2024-07-27 15:32 grass/.dockerignore
> -rw-r--r-- runner/docker   3272 2024-07-27 15:32 grass/Vagrantfile
> -rw-r--r-- runner/docker   1488 2024-07-27 15:32 grass/TODO
> drwxr-xr-x runner/docker      0 2024-07-27 15:32 grass/display/
> drwxr-xr-x runner/docker      0 2024-07-27 15:32 grass/display/d.rhumbline/
> -rw-r--r-- runner/docker     53 2024-07-27 15:32
> grass/display/d.rhumbline/local_proto.h
> 
> Why is that? Is it a feature?
> It breaks e.g. the (Fedora) RPM packaging procedure...
> 


It is unfortunately not a feature, but a regression by PR 3437 [1]. Too bad that
one slipped. Breaks current procedure for MacPorts too, but is patchable.

Is a fix urgent or is a quick  8.4.1 release necessary?

Nicklas


[1] https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/3437


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