[Ubuntu] GRASS 7.0.5 and the GDAL GRASS plugin

[Even Rouault]

Le dimanche 02 octobre 2016 23:53:47, Sebastiaan Couwenberg a écrit :
> 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=cca9c4
> 6f23e0c33e2333fe2afb69c49925d75568
> 
> 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).

Just chimming in on this remark. Except if we mess up things, GDAL X.Y.z shoud 
be binary compatible with GDAL X.Y.Z, even at the C++ level, so normally you 
shouldn't have to rebuild reverse dependencies

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