Bug#892062: bug 892062 is forwarded to https://github.com/OSGeo/proj.4/issues/833

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 03/09/2018 09:17 PM, Olly Betts wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 07:00:50AM +0100, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>>> There's now a patch for this:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/OSGeo/proj.4/pull/845
>>
>> The changes look a little invasive, though.
> 
> Yeah, I sighed a bit when I saw it looked like most of the file was
> rewritten.  OTOH, it's an x.0.0 version with a new API added so
> presumably already full of invasive changes compared to 4.9.x - it's
> not like we're backporting a patch to Debian stable here.

I'm quite wary of Thomas Knudsens changes, with this PR he has once
again proven his tendency to introduce regressions. Also not learning
from that by adding regression tests.

> Looks like there are some teething problems with the patch but
> upstream are being responsive to dealing with them.

Fortunately there are people who test his changes. Unfortunately there
aren't enough to do this early in development to catch regressions
before they're committed and included in a release.

> Thanks for the package in experimental - I'll try to do some additional
> testing with Survex and that package.

With the patch for the regression introduced by the changes from PR #845
no further regressions were uncovered with the most recent round of rdep
rebuilds, so I'll move the proj package from experimental to unstable soon.

Kind Regards,

Bas