Adding build profiles to Debian GIS packages

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

On 01/26/2016 09:49 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> Based on the 'Profile built binary packages' [0] section of the
> BuildProfileSpec, we can't do anything other than wait for
> librt-topology, because build profiles are not a solution to the
> spatialite->postgis->gdal->spatialite circular dependency.
> 
> When spatialite is built without liblwgeom the binary package will not
> contain the exact same content. Even with the "stage1" exception the
> library will still be different and violate the spec.

I still don't understand how gdal et al were bootstrapped for ppc64el
or mips64el, for example. It most certainly didn't fell from the sky
;-).

Adrian

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