On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Hamish <[email protected]> wrote: > Alex wrote: >> I think we just need clarification on what the change does. Sorry for the late reaction - would have been better to ping me on IRC, not reading this mailing list frequently. > > (tries to pull in a new saga which builds-depends on natty's > libgdal 1.6 instead of ubuntugis's libgdal 1.8, and no more) Sorry for the confusion: as I said on IRC. I actually postponed the changes because I hoped for a fixed GDAL. When I realised that the fix I proposed (for gdal) would indeed be too drastic at this stage I changed the repository for saga. This doesn't affect any other program.
> >> Anyone know if QGIS can open geotiff ok with GDAL 1.8? I checked - no problems here. > > AFAIK qgis does not try to bundle a local copy of libtiff > and so should be fine. for that matter, any in-debian package > would flag the embedded copy as a lintian error and be suitably > punished. It is *gdal* which ships a local copy of libtiff. That is why I proposed building gdal without internal libtiff version. > > > anyway, the change seems harmless enough to me.. last minute > changes suck, but so does a SAGA unable to load basic geotiffs. > > > it was noticed that as of right now the package hasn't actually > made it through the ppa build queue yet, so no new packages there > to install. The last version actually has no changes except a higher version number to make sure it is installed (and not the version on ubuntugis). > best, > Hamish _______________________________________________ Live-demo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc
