[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#598706: Bug#598706: grass-dev should depend on libgdal1-dev

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 10:43:15PM +1300, Hamish wrote:
> Package: grass-dev
> Version: 6.4.0~rc6+42329-1
> Severity: minor
> 
> Hi,
> 
> as reported on the UbuntuGIS mailing list,
>   http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ubuntu/2010-September/000247.html
> 
> building some GRASS addons fails because the grass-dev package does
> not depend on the libgdal1-dev package, only libproj-dev. I'm not sure
> if we really have to have it depend on all of grass's many
> build-depends, but gdal's -dev is a biggie.
> 
> as a way of audit, maybe run:
>   ldd /usr/lib/grass64/libgrass_*.so | grep '=' | \
>       cut -f1 -d'=' | sort | uniq
> 
> I don't think we need to depend on all of those, but we shoudln't have
> to depend on anything more than those.
> 

Well one rigourously does not need to depend on gdal/ogr stuff to build
grass addons, but that could help.

-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine