[Ubuntu] GRASS 7.0.5 and the GDAL GRASS plugin

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 10/02/2016 11:53 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> 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?

The UbuntuGIS branches for libgdal-grass have been updated for GRASS
7.0.5, but they cannot be built yet because the published grass packages
haven't found their way into the Packages files on the Launchpad APT
repository and are hence unavailable to cowbuiler chroots.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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