[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#544978: and libgdal1-1.5.0-grass: error when trying to install together

[Francesco Paolo Lovergine]

Package: libgdal-grass
Severity: normal

This is an error due to binNMU, as you can see from the following list:

klecker:~/debian/debian-gis/supported/gdal-grass/build-area$ dpkg --contents libgdal1-1.5.0-grass_1.5.4-3_i386.deb
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-04-20 12:50 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-04-20 12:50 ./usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-04-20 12:50 ./usr/lib/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-04-20 12:50 ./usr/lib/gdal15plugins/
-rw-r--r-- root/root     28408 2009-04-20 12:50 ./usr/lib/gdal15plugins/gdal_GRASS.so
-rw-r--r-- root/root     40692 2009-04-20 12:50 ./usr/lib/gdal15plugins/ogr_GRASS.so
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-04-20 12:50 ./usr/share/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-04-20 12:50 ./usr/share/doc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-04-20 12:50 ./usr/share/doc/libgdal1-1.5.0-grass/
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1435 2009-04-20 12:49 ./usr/share/doc/libgdal1-1.5.0-grass/copyright
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1376 2009-04-20 12:49 ./usr/share/doc/libgdal1-1.5.0-grass/changelog.Debian.gz
klecker:~/debian/debian-gis/supported/gdal-grass/build-area$ dpkg --contents libgdal1-1.6.0-grass_1.6.0-3_i386.deb
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-09-02 15:36 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-09-02 15:36 ./usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-09-02 15:36 ./usr/lib/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-09-02 15:36 ./usr/lib/gdal16plugins/
-rw-r--r-- root/root     28944 2009-09-02 15:36 ./usr/lib/gdal16plugins/gdal_GRASS.so
-rw-r--r-- root/root     41096 2009-09-02 15:36 ./usr/lib/gdal16plugins/ogr_GRASS.so
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-09-02 15:36 ./usr/share/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-09-02 15:36 ./usr/share/doc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-09-02 15:36 ./usr/share/doc/libgdal1-1.6.0-grass/
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1435 2009-09-02 15:36 ./usr/share/doc/libgdal1-1.6.0-grass/copyright
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1542 2009-09-02 15:36 ./usr/share/doc/libgdal1-1.6.0-grass/changelog.Debian.gz

The libgdal-grass cannot be binNMU while gdal is transitioning because
it get its version from the gdal provided at build time. I asked about that
expressely to RMs. I see not an easy way to avoid that but from
embedding an explicit version into the package, something I dislike.
Any better suggestion?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash