Bug#756943: RFS: liblas/1.8.0-1~exp1

[Bas Couwenberg]

Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "liblas"

 Package name    : liblas
 Version         : 1.8.0-1~exp1
 Upstream Author : libLAS developers <liblas-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
 URL             : http://liblas.org/
 License         : BSD-3-Clause
 Section         : science

It builds those binary packages:

 liblas3       - ASPRS LiDAR data translation library - C++ version
 liblas-c3     - ASPRS LiDAR data translation library - C version
 liblas-dev    - ASPRS LiDAR data translation library - C++ development files
 liblas-c-dev  - ASPRS LiDAR data translation library - C development files
 liblas-bin    - ASPRS LiDAR data translation toolset
 python-liblas - Python module to use the ASPRS LiDAR data translation library

To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL:

http://mentors.debian.net/package/liblas


Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command:

  dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/libl/liblas/liblas_1.8.0-1~exp1.dsc


Please note that the libLAS 1.8.0 package lives on the experimental branch of
the Debian GIS git repository.


More information about LibLAS can be obtained from http://liblas.org/.

Changes since the last upload:

  * New upstream release.
  * Drop patches applied upstream:
    - boost
    - soversion
    - separator-typo
  * Drop patches backported from upstream:
    - 0001-remove-old-LAStools-utilities-that-don-t-belong-in-liblas.patch
    - update_gdal_geotiff.patch
  * Update fix_library_search patch for SONAME bump.
  * Update package names for SONAME bump.
  * Add build dependencies for boost_iostreams & boost_filesystem.
  * Fix executable-not-elf-or-script for python examples.
  * Add patch to fix 'accommodate' typo.
  * Strip RPATH from binaries.


Regards,
 Bas Couwenberg