[DebianGIS-dev] gdal C++ transition plans?

[Steve Halasz]

Petter,

On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 21:10 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am one of the maintainers of mapserver, one of the packages using
> the gdal package.  As you can see from
> <URL:http://people.debian.org/~mfurr/gxx/html/m/a/mapserver-bin.html>,
> We need to wait for a new version of gdal before a new version
> mapserver can be uploaded into unstable.  I got a new version waiting
> to be uploaded, fixing all the reported bugs against mapserver, which
> make me very interested in the status for gdal. :)
> 
> When do you plan to upload a new version of gdal into unstable, to get
> it rebuilt with the c++ ABI?  Do you want an NMU instead?  If you
> don't reply before friday, I'll start preparing a delayed NMU to fix
> the gdal package.

Has any progress been made on this? I'm also waiting on gdal for qgis
and grass. If nobody else has the time I can prepare an NMU for gdal.
I'd need you to upload it though.

Thanks,
Steve

> 
> I am aware that gdal depend on qt and odbs, and thus need to wait for
> a new version of those to make it into unstable.
> <URL:http://people.debian.org/~mfurr/gxx/html/l/i/libgdal1-dev.html>.
> 
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