[Ubuntu] GRASS 7.0.5 and the GDAL GRASS plugin

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

Hi all,

GRASS 7.0.5 has been released and the Debian packages have been updated
accordingly and uploaded to unstable. Martin will likely soon update the
grass package in ubuntugis-unstable.

Because of the tight version requirements for the GDAL GRASS plugin,
whenever a new GRASS version is uploaded the libgdal-grass package needs
to be rebuilt with that version.

For the changes required see this commit for the libgdal-grass 2.1.1
package in Debian:

 https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-grass/gdal-grass.git/commit/?id=cca9c46f23e0c33e2333fe2afb69c49925d75568

The incremented version in the build dependencies and the virtual GRASS
ABI package are required for the package in UbuntuGIS too. UbuntuGIS
still uses GDAL 2.1.0 instead of 2.1.1 as in Debian, so the GDAL version
does not need to be incremented nor should the 2.1.1 version from Debian
be used (updating GDAL to a new version requires a rebuild of its
reverse dependencies).

I've prepared branches for UbuntuGIS in gdal-grass git repository on
Alioth which only need to be updated for GRASS 7.0.5:

 https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-grass/gdal-grass.git/log/?h=ubuntu/trusty
 https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-grass/gdal-grass.git/log/?h=ubuntu/xenial

The procedure to create these branches using the source packages from
Launchpad is now also documented in the Debian GIS policy:

 https://pkg-grass.alioth.debian.org/policy/packaging.html#git-import-dsc

There is currently no libgdal-grass package for xenial in the
ubuntugis-unstable repository, so adding it now is a good opportunity.
I've prepared the ubuntu/xenial branch using the packaging from OSGeo-Live.

I've also updated the transition trackers for UbuntuGIS which currently
shows libgdal-grass as bad for trusty because it doesn't depend on the
grass705 virtual ABI package yet. The tracker for xenial doesn't include
libgdal-grass because the package is not available for xenial yet:

 http://linuxminded.nl/tmp/pkg-grass-transitions/ubuntugis-unstable/trusty/html/grass.html
 http://linuxminded.nl/tmp/pkg-grass-transitions/ubuntugis-unstable/xenial/html/grass.html

@Martin, will you update libgdal-grass along with grass for 7.0.5 as
I've done for Debian?

Kind Regards,

Bas

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