[Ubuntu] Change of libgdal1 to libgdal1h - dependency problems

[Daniel Kastl]

Hi,

This change is very confusing and it would be nice if it would be announced
beforehand and somewhere documented.
Right now it just breaks a lot of things. I think many people used
"ubuntugis-unstable" PPA because the "stable" PPA was not really offering
recent package versions in the past such as PostGIS 2.0.

I'm speaking from the pgRouting perspective and I have difficulties now to
build packages for different Ubuntu releases.
Actually I just tried to see what happens when I update to libgdal1h using
Ubuntu 12.10:

   - First the upgrade removed QGIS and Mapserver (little surprise) and a
   bunch of other packages
   - Then I was looking for postgresql-9.1-postgis-2.0 ... but another
   surprise. There was no new package for Precise

Is the Precise package just missing and will be added soon? Or will be
packages for 12.10 not updated anymore?
Then I'm wondering why libgdal1h was published for 12.10 but other software
was not updated.

Daniel














On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Pedro:
> > After an update of GDAL to v1.10 through ubuntugis-unstable, I have a
> > lot of problems with package dependencies from libgdal1. This package
> > was, apparently, replaced by libgdal1h (gdal 1.10.x) but there are
> > many programs that are not understanding it as a substitute (eg OTB,
> > pgrouting which depends on the package postgresql-9.1-postgis, etc..).
> >
> > Is there any reason for libgdal1 have been changed to libgdal1h, since
> > there are many packages that use libgdal1 as dependency?
>
> Hi,
>
> re. the new libgdal1h package, see:
>   http://lists.debian.org/debian-gis/2013/06/msg00015.html
>   http://lists.debian.org/debian-gis/2013/06/msg00016.html
>
>
> if you use /any/ after-market package repository (such as UbuntuGIS's),
> you can expect things not to work from time to time as packaging
> changes filter through the system. if you want things not to change
> unexpectedly then use the official distro packages. aka be patient,
> you're witnessing progress as it happens, and the other packages in
> "unstable"(!) will catch up to the new naming soon enough. :)
>
>
> regards,
> Hamish
>
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