[Ubuntu] GDAL 2.0, QGIS updates

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 12-02-16 16:42, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> 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.

The above have found their way from proposed into release, the below has
not. The ImportFreeze is today, so I doubt these will get into xenial
before the 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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