Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: transition
Dear RMs I'm going to provide a long due change to gdal library (current 1.9.0) in sid. In order to solve properly problems of programs that both link geotiff, tiff and gdal libraries, I'm going to drop direct tiff/geotiff functions providing. Upstreams provide now a renaming feature for that (note that the internal gdal version indeed use a bit different ABI) and the result will be a bit different API/ABI starting from next 1.10.0 version. (See http://wiki.orfeo-toolbox.org/index.php/Link_conflicts about that and the partially working fix of #558733) Unfortunately, upstreams do not consider that a true API change (in some way the use of geotiff/tiff funcs out of the gdal interface is considered de facto a deprecated use). So the official upstream soname is indeed the same. BTW, without annoying all of you with a so looooooong history about this issue, I'm going to introduce a new libgdal1h binary package (h means hidden, better suggestions are welcome :)), with a new SONAME libgdal.1h to manage a decent migration to the new flavor. This will sacrifice third-parties sw compatibility, but well, who cares? It would be break anyway. That could also imply that some r-deps will have to explicitly link now tiff/geotiff libraries instead of using the gdal inner one. As usual I will start all the transition in experimental ASAP. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
