Adding build profiles to Debian GIS packages

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 26-01-16 21:55, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> 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
> ;-).

spatialite started to build depend on liblwgeom-dev in June 2015 (>=
4.3.0~rc0-1~exp1), so it's a recent issue. And hopefully not long lived.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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