Hi, I work on the Google Earth Engine team. We are trying to use GDAL with GeoParquet on our internal Linux machines based on Ubuntu, but we are running into problems because Arrow is currently not included into the main distro.
This bug says that carrying the full Arrow C++ is a problem because of size, optional features, and release cadence. I'm not an expert, but it seems that a lean, blessed profile (core + Parquet, with a few codecs; optionally Dataset) should be feasible and stable enough for distros, while keeping maintenance manageable (or at least that's what LLMs tell me <https://chatgpt.com/share/68e708de-a668-8005-9366-1f409744f06e>). What are the best next steps to make this happen? I'm happy to help with some glue work, but I'm not an expert in either Arrow or Ubuntu, so some guidance would be welcome! Thanks, Simon
