[Qgis-psc] CI port to 22.04 - complete!

[Andreas Neumann]

Excellent. Sounds like a good investment of QGIS.ORG!

Thanks,

Andreas

On 2022-08-11 09:21, Tim Sutton wrote:

> Wow awesome work Nyall thanks!
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On 11 Aug 2022, at 07:49, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi PSC,
>> 
>> Just reporting back that I've finished porting the CI setup to 22.04
>> (for master at least, the backports are still being worked through the
>> queue).
>> 
>> In the end this work involved both a lot of fixes to individual tests
>> to reflect changed behaviour in newer GEOS/GDAL/Qt versions, plus a
>> fair amount of actual bugs fixed in QGIS which were only revealed on
>> the newer libraries.
>> 
>> Here's a quick (non-exhaustive) summary of the actual fixes made
>> during this work:
>> 
>> - Fixed a crash in the rule based renderer (this one has been plaguing
>> us for a looong time -- it had previously been written off as an issue
>> in the python tests only, but during this work the Qt 6 based tests
>> started failing and led to the actual underlying cause of the crash!)
>> - Fixed an issue in the hub lines processing tool which caused failure
>> to save features when running on newer GDAL versions (caused by newer
>> GDAL rejecting geometries with nan z/m values)
>> - Fix virtual layer provider failing to determine correct field types
>> on some sqlite versions
>> - Fix spatialite provider incorrectly retrieving features with null
>> geometries when we explicitly ask for features within a given extent
>> on newer spatialite versions
>> - Fix 3d layout map exports are completely blank, and setting the 3d
>> layout map to copy settings from a scene completely fails
>> - Fix GDAL vrt items inside zip files don't show in browser
>> - Fix default qml style for raster layers inside zip archives isn't 
>> applied
>> - Fix loading gdal rasters inside zip archives which also contain a
>> .aux.xml file fails if only the zip archive is added as a layer
>> 
>> I also took the opportunity to do a bunch of cleanups to tests, and
>> specifically the way rendering tests were previously relying on the
>> orfeo toolbox cdash server to allow retrieval and comparison of
>> rendered vs expected images. Now it's done via a more modern approach,
>> making the rendered image report directly available as an artifact on
>> the pull request. (There's lots more we could do to make this further
>> developer-friendly). This removes our reliance on the orfeo toolbox
>> cdash server which has been broken for a number of months now.
>> 
>> Thanks again for the opportunity to do this work!
>> 
>> Nyall
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