[postgis-devel] Plan release PostGIS 3.4.0 this weekend

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 8/12/23 02:59, Regina Obe wrote:
>> Regarding the bin/postgis thing.  I've marked annotated this as a breaking
> change
> 
> https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/postgis/postgis/src/branch/master/NEWS#L68
> 
> I think it was side effect of https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/635 (yah
> took us 13 years to fix)
> 
> Bas had complained about it too about all these utilities moving from
> postgresql bin to OS bin  - https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/5447
> and the man pages missing.
> 
> 
>> I successfully upgraded a db from earlier postgis, via 'postgis upgrade',
> in
>> that I didn't get an error.  I will test it with qgis once I have rebuilt
> it (which is
>> not about postgis, but a qwt upgrade).
>>
>> I did find that the (new?) bin/postgis:
>>
>>    lacks a man page (I don't get any from build/install and don't see
>>    that I disabled them, but I am not passing --mandir either)
>>
>>    is confusing, at least to me:
>>
> 
> Hmm this should have been fixed in the rc1 run, though I don't think Bas
> ever confirmed
> https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/5447
> 
> Maybe something different with BSD we are missing or it's not fixed.

Manpages are installed on Linux:

$ dpkg-deb -c ../postgis_3.4.0~rc1+dfsg-1~exp1_amd64.deb | grep man1
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2023-08-06 06:59 ./usr/share/man/man1/
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1622 2023-08-06 06:59 
./usr/share/man/man1/pgsql2shp.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root       585 2023-08-06 06:59 
./usr/share/man/man1/pgtopo_export.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root       691 2023-08-06 06:59 
./usr/share/man/man1/pgtopo_import.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root       387 2023-08-06 06:59 
./usr/share/man/man1/postgis.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root       685 2023-08-06 06:59 
./usr/share/man/man1/postgis_restore.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2049 2023-08-06 06:59 
./usr/share/man/man1/raster2pgsql.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2489 2023-08-06 06:59 
./usr/share/man/man1/shp2pgsql.1.gz

Kind Regards,

Bas

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