[Ubuntu] GDAL 2.0, QGIS updates

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 12-02-16 10:08, Johan Van de Wauw wrote:
> Energy should now probably be spent in making sure that Xerial, the
> next LTS release is well tested and has the packages we want. The
> debian import freeze is later this month, so now is the last time to
> act.

The DebianImportFreeze is scheduled for February 18th according to the
release schedule [0].

Almost everything from Debian unstable is in xenial already, some
desired packages are still in proposed which may need some help to get
into the release before the freeze:

 - gdal (1.11.3+dfsg-3)
   This should get into xenial, has fix for segfault with SQLite 3.10.0.

 - grass (7.0.3-1)
   This should get into xenial, latest upstream release.

 - libgdal-grass
   This should get into xenial, required for GRASS 7.0.3.

 - netcdf (1:4.4.0-1)
   This should get into xenial, latest upstream release.

 - netcdf-fortran (4.4.3-1)
   This should get into xenial, latest upstream release and
   required for NetCDF-C 4.4.0.

 - netcdf-cxx (4.2.1-3)
   This should get into xenial, rebuilt for NetCDF-C 4.4.0.

 - netcdf-cxx-legacy (4.2-4)
   This should get into xenial, rebuilt for NetCDF-C 4.4.0.

 - netcdf4-python (1.2.2-2)
   This should get into xenial, rebuilt for NetCDF-C 4.4.0.

 - python-cligj (0.4.0-1)
   This should get into xenial, latest upstream release.

 - fiona (1.6.3-2)
   Not really important, but includes support for GDAL 2.0.

Special mention for ossim (1.8.20.3+ds-2) which is required for OTB 5.2.

Ubuntu chose to diverge from Debian for its GCC 5 transition, but now
wants the Debian maintainers to carry the Breaks/Replaces changes only
required for Ubuntu before merging the new ossim package. [1]

I've so far refrained from doing so, because I think the burden should
be on Ubuntu to carry that change because they chose to ignore the
maintainers in Debian when doing their GCC 5 transition.

To get OSSIM 1.8.20-3 into xenial someone else may need to prepare
ossim (1.8.20.3+ds-2ubuntu1) [2] with the Breaks/Replaces changes
required for Ubuntu if the Ubuntu people cannot be bothered to deal with
the issues they created.

[0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseSchedule
[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ossim/+bug/1529157
[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/Merging

Kind Regards,

Bas

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