GDAL 1.11.4 & 2.0.2 have been released, but unfortunately we're not able to transition to GDAL 2.0 yet. Upstream would like everyone including Debian & Ubuntu to adopt 2.0, as would I. We mostly need the Fiona 1.7 release which is not expected until March. [0] Once we have that we can re-evaluate the move to GDAL 2.0. Hopefully we can switch to 2.0 before the freeze in November, but I'm not so sure about that.
In the mean time we should transition to GDAL 1.11.4 to get the latest bugfixes into Debian & Ubuntu. Because of the spatialite->postgis->gdal->spatialite and postgis->sfcgal->openscenegraph->gdal->spatialite->postgis circular dependencies [1] we cannot easily rebuild the reverse dependencies because the old GDAL package keeps being installed. I've inquired about the status of the new topological library that will be used by spatialite instead of liblwgeom [2], but I doubt it will be available soon. Because of that, I think that we should drop the liblwgeom dependency from spatialite to break circular dependency and leave it out until we can switch to the new topological library. None of the liblwgeom specific symbols in spatialite are used by other packages in Debian, so we can get avoid triggering a spatialite transition too. We may break 3rd party software not packaged in Debian though. I'm going to get rid of the circular dependency by dropping the liblwgeom dependency from spatialite to unblock the gdal transition. My apologies to anyone relying on the liblwgeom features in spatialite. [0] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2016-January/043600.html [1] https://bugs.debian.org/808606 [2] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/postgis-devel/2016-February/025612.html Transition: gdal libgdal1i (1.11.3+dfsg-2) -> libgdal1i (1.11.4+dfsg-1~exp1) libgdal.so.1-1.11.3 -> libgdal.so.1-1.11.4 The status of the most recent rebuilds is as follows. dans-gdal-scripts (0.23-4) TODO fiona (1.6.3-1) TODO gazebo (6.5.0+dfsg-2) TODO gmt (5.2.1+dfsg-3) TODO imposm (2.6.0+ds-2) TODO libcitygml (2.0-1) TODO liblas (1.8.0-7) TODO libosmium (2.5.4-1) TODO mapcache (1.4.0-4) TODO mapnik (3.0.9+ds-1) TODO mapserver (7.0.0-9) TODO merkaartor (0.18.2-5) TODO mysql-workbench (6.3.4+dfsg-3) TODO ncl (6.3.0-6) TODO node-srs (0.4.8+dfsg-2) TODO openscenegraph (3.2.1-9) TODO osmium (0.0~20160124-b30afd3-1) TODO osrm (4.7.1-2) TODO postgis (2.2.1+dfsg-2) TODO pprepair (0.0~20150624-82a2019-1) TODO prepair (0.7-4) TODO qlandkartegt (1.8.1+ds-4) TODO qmapshack (1.5.1-1) TODO rasterio (0.31.0-2) TODO saga (2.2.3+dfsg-1) TODO sumo (0.25.0+dfsg1-2) TODO thuban (1.2.2-9) TODO vtk6 (6.2.0+dfsg1-7) TODO xastir (2.0.6-4) TODO grass (7.0.3-1) TODO osgearth (2.5.0+dfsg-8 / 2.7.0+dfsg-1~exp5) TODO / TODO osmcoastline (2.1.2-1) TODO pktools (2.6.6-1) TODO pyosmium (2.5.4-1) TODO libgdal-grass (1.11.3-3) TODO qgis (2.8.6+dfsg-1) TODO Kind Regards, Bas -- GPG Key ID: 4096R/6750F10AE88D4AF1 Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146 50D1 6750 F10A E88D 4AF1
