[Ubuntu] GDAL 3.10.x for noble

[Paul Schreiber]

On Feb 5, 2025, at 11:56 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On 2/6/25 5:40 AM, Paul Schreiber via Ubuntu wrote:
>> On Feb 5, 2025, at 11:32 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>> On 2/6/25 2:53 AM, Paul Schreiber via Ubuntu wrote:
>>>> Are you working on this? GDAL 3.10 was released in November 2024.
>>> 
>>> oracular is not an LTS release, so no.
>> What about noble? That’s LTS.
> 
> UbuntuGIS packages come from OSGeoLive these days which is currently based on noble, but has GDAL 3.9.3.
> 
> If Angeloz is not working on a GDAL update for OSGeoLive then it's unlikely to happen as he's about the only remaining active contributor to UbuntuGIS.
> 
> Debian trixie is schedule to freeze in May, so you're likely better off running that if you need GDAL 3.10 packages.
> 
> Or you can do the work to backport GDAL and its reverse dependencies for your chosen Ubuntu release.

We’re able to run Debian Docker images for many things, which works fine.

However, GitHub runners use Ubuntu, and they are used for CI, dependabot, etc. which is what we need this for.


Paul