[postgis-devel] Bump GDAL and Proj versions for PostGIS 3

[Paul Ramsey]

> On Jul 8, 2019, at 9:15 AM, Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:
> 
> Christoph Berg <myon at debian.org> writes:
> 
>> Re: Even Rouault 2019-07-08 <1601840.ZlCh8DZyrr at even-i700>
>>>> gdal | 1.11.3+dfsg-3build2  | xenial/universe        | source
>>>> proj | 4.9.2-2              | xenial/universe        | source
>>> 
>>> People can use ubuntugis there:
>>> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
>>> has
>>> GDAL 2.2.2 for Xenial
>> 
>> I'm building postgis packages for apt.postgresql.org and I'd hate to
>> have to tell people to use yet another external repository for stuff
>> we ship. (And I'd rather also avoid having to build yet more
>> backports inside our repository.)
> 
> Something I have long not understood:  If someone is ok with gdal 1.11,
> why aren't they ok with postgis 2.2?
> 
> It seems any given packaging system/instance either updates or doesn't.
> Certainly there are times when there are new versions and the update is
> paused, such as proj 6 where a number of depending packages no longer
> build.  But I haven't been hearing that about gdal.

Yeah, quite a tension there. PGDG yum builds out its own GDAL/GEOS/PROJ, so they can release the latest PostGIS with the latest Pg.

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