[Qgis-user] Issue with zip library in QGIS 18 / Ubuntu 21.04

[chris hermansen]

Jürgen and list,

On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 1:09 AM Jürgen E. Fischer <jef at norbit.de> wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> On Mon, 12. Apr 2021 at 10:59:49 -0700, chris hermansen wrote:
> > Unfortunately, libzip5 is not packaged in Ubuntu 21.04;
>
> Hm, apparently it was.  I guess this will fix itself once the package is
> rebuilt on the next point release.  Meanwhile use the nightly, which
> depends on libzip4 already:
>
> $ apt depends libqgis-core3.18.1=1:3.18.1+git20210407+523510c605+34hirsute
> …
>  Depends: libzip4 (>= 0.11.2)
> …
>
> See also the note on1
> https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html#repositories
>

Thanks very much for this info!  On the Ubuntu quality mailing list one of
the people responsible for libzip packaging wrote this today:

the libzip5 was uncoordinated between the maintainers, so I have reverted
> it. The whole reason for the SONAME bump was to remove one dummy function,
> and somehow I failed to see the reason for the transition to the new SONAME
> just for the single-function API cleanup. This might change in bullseye+1
> just to keep the soname same with other distributions.
>

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Chris Hermansen · clhermansen "at" gmail "dot" com

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