[QGIS-Developer] Issues installing on ubuntu 19.10

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Tim,

On Sat, 16. Nov 2019 at 20:54:23 +0000, Tim Sutton wrote:
> Thanks Juergen - all working now - though it is running against GDAL 2.4.2. I
> was nerdily hoping to get GDAL 3.x in the process :-p

Ubuntu (but also ubuntugis) usually depends on Debian (IOW on Bas Couwenberg's
work), when it comes to FOSSGIS:

On Sun, 10. Nov 2019 at 20:26:02 +0100, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> The transition to GDAL 3 was blocked by the removal of the Python 2
> support as discussed in the transition bugreport (#939989). This took
> quite a bit of time to resolve due to an uncooperative maintainer, but
> there are no rdeps of python-gdal in unstable any more.
>
> In the meantime the GDAL 3 support in fiona was fixed upstream. vtk7 was
> also updated to use the embedded copy of PROJ.4 to fix the FTBFS with
> PROJ 6. OSSIM upstream even ported it to use the GEOS C API to fix the
> build failure with GEOS 3.8.0. Unfortunately OTB still FTBFS due to
> recent changes in ITK4. It's still not in testing, so not a big issue.
>
> Hopefully we'll be able to start the transition soon, but I fear that
> the python3.8 transition is going to cause more delays (as it will cause
> many autopkgtest failure until everything is rebuilt for python3.8 as well).


Jürgen

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