[pdal] Building PDAL 1.3 on Debian testing

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 09/08/2016 10:18 PM, Howard Butler wrote:
> 
>> On Sep 8, 2016, at 3:16 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>
>> On 09/08/2016 08:54 PM, Jean-Francois Prieur wrote:
>>> I saw that there was a PDAL 1.2 package for Debian testing but it
>>> is not built with PCL so it does not have the ground filter that I need.
>>
>> FWIW, the pdal package in Debian disabled the PCL plugin in pdal
>> (1.1.0-5) because that pulls VTK into the dependency chain, and the VTK
>> packages in Debian are not very well maintained.
>>
>> Having the VTK packages in the dependency chain makes the package very
>> prone to release critical bugs which threaten the removal of the package
>> from testing and subsequently from the next stable release.
>>
>> GRASS will soon depend on PDAL and this package is too important to not
>> have in a Debian stable release.
> 
> Brad Chambers has ported nearly all of the interesting filters that were PCL-based into PDAL proper at PDAL 1.3.0, so there won't be a lot of functionality drop-off by not having PCL available.
> 
> The biggest missing item of missing PCL would be PCD read/write support.

That's great news!

The GRASS developers also mentioned the lack of the ground filter in the
Debian PDAL packages, so it would seem the 1.3.0 packages would suit
their needs too.

Speaking of 1.3.0, the PDAL 1.3.0 packages should migrate to testing
tomorrow.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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