On Sep 03, 2014, at 12:24 PM, Reinout van Rees wrote: >All of them have ubuntu packages, but especially for gdal we sometimes need a >newer version. A PPA can help here, but I thought "a wheel could be nice, >too".
In many cases, it mostly takes an interested person to get Ubuntu and Debian packages updated. Generally it's best to get the latest versions in Debian first (and that may be easy or hard depending on the maintainership of the package), and then sync or merge the newer Debian versions into Ubuntu. Looking quickly at gdal, I can see that Ubuntu carries some deltas over Debian, but I haven't looked at the details. It would take some evaluation as to whether the Ubuntu deltas can be dropped or need to be merged. #debian-python on OTFC or the debian-python mailing lists are good places to start about getting some help with the packages you care about. Cheers, -Barry
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