Re: [DebianGIS] gdal and unixodbc
Frank,
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 15:15 -0400, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> On 10/6/05, Steve Halasz <debian@adkgis.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > unixodbc is holding up gdal building again. I looked at the gdal package
> > and it appears it is not even building with odbc support. I'd like to
> > upload a gdal-1.2.6 that doesn't depend on unixodbc and unixodbc-dev in
> > the control file. Have we agreed on how gdal will be maintained? Will it
> > be team maintained by DebianGIS?
> >
> > I would like to avoid uploading gdal 1.3 until gdal, qgis, grass etc.
> > have migrated to testing. It looks like 1.3 causes some problems with
> > qgis and I'd like to get everything transitioned before breaking things
> > all over again.
>
> Steve,
>
> For what its worth, I would appreciate upstream bug reports on these
> issues if possible. I don't know why there should be ODBC related
> issues if you are configuring --without-odbc.
This is strictly a debian packaging problem. gdal is not being
configured --with-odbc and I believe it is not enabled by default. But
the gdal package is being told to depend on unixodbc in the
debian/control file. The problem with unixodbc is that a package way
down the dependency chain has been removed from the archive and now
that's preventing the gdal package from building because unixodbc-dev
can't be installed. I hope to remove the unixodbc dependency temporarily
so packaging/building for gdal and the packages that depend on it can
proceed.
> Likewise, I am
> interested in what this QGIS incompatability is about.
This thread from the qgis-developer mailing list is what I'm thinking
of:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=8419452&forum_id=10678
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=8426253&forum_id=10678
It's not yet clear if this is a qgis or gdal bug. And it's is certainly
not a showstopper. But I'm also thinking of the qgis 0.6 crashing with
gdal 1.2.6 problem that cropped up just before the Sarge release. And
I'd like for all these packages to migrate to testing since they all
have to do it together due to the C++ ABI transition. If a bunch of new
uploads are required to address problems that crop up with new versions
it will start the clock all over again.
Steve
>
> Best regards,
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