Bug#931949: transition: proj

[Bas Couwenberg]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
Usertags: transition
Control: forwarded -1 https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-proj.html
Control: block -1 by 931914 931922 931931 931935 931940 931943 931945 931941 931944 931948 931904 931908 931872

For the Debian GIS team I'd like to transition to PROJ 6.

This is a major change that affects the wider GIS ecosystem, with proj
being at the bottom of the dependency chain.

Most packages build successfully with the new version after defining
ACCEPT_USE_OF_DEPRECATED_PROJ_API_H to use the deprecated proj_api.h.
Several of the affected packages already have this change in unstable.
Others have patches available in the BTS. For yet some others have a fix
available in a new upstream release that still needs to be packaged.

Some packages that FTBFS are dead upstream for quite a while and RM bug
have been filed for those.

The vtk6 & vtk7 packages and their rdeps (ifrit & lammps) are the
biggest issue, but the VTK packages can be updated to use their embedded
copy of PROJ 4. VTK upstream also has support for PROJ 6, but this is
not packaged yet.

libgeotiff-dfsg won't need a rebuild, libgeotiff will be moved to
unstable instead. This will trigger a transition too, but it only
affects 12 packages, 6 of which are also affected by the proj
transition. All libgeotiff rdeps built successfully with the new proj &
libgeotiff.

python-pyproj also won't need a rebuild, the version in experimental
will be moved to unstable as well. This won't trigger a transition.


Transition: proj

 libproj13 (5.2.0-1) -> libproj15 (6.1.1-1~exp1)

The status of the most recent rebuilds is as follows.
Packages marked with [+] have a patch available in the BTS.

 josm                    (0.0.svn15238+dfsg-1)              SKIP

 gpx2shp                 (0.71.0-7)                         FTBFS
                                                            (#931904)
 libgeo-proj4-perl       (1.09-3)                           FTBFS
                                                            (#931908)
 libgeotiff-dfsg         (1.4.3-1)                          SKIP
 libgeotiff              (1.5.1-1~exp3)                     OK
 mshr                    (2018.1.0+dfsg1-7)                 OK
 octave-octproj          (1.1.5-4)                          OK [+]
                                                            (#931914)
 osm2pgsql               (0.96.0+ds-3)                      OK
 pdl                     (1:2.019-5)                        OK
 proj-rdnap              (2008-9)                           OK
 python-cartopy          (0.17.0+dfsg-4)                    OK
 python-pyproj           (1.9.6-1 / 2.2.1+ds-1~exp1)        FTBFS / OK
 sosi2osm                (1.0.0-6)                          OK
 spatialite              (4.3.0a-6)                         OK
 survex                  (1.2.40-1)                         OK
 xygrib                  (1.2.2-1)                          OK [+]
                                                            (#931922)

 gdal                    (2.4.2+dfsg-1)                     OK
 magics++                (4.0.3-1)                          OK
 spatialite-gui          (2.1.0~beta0+really2.0.0~devel2-4) OK
 spatialite-tools        (4.3.0-3)                          OK
 xastir                  (2.1.2-1)                          OK [+]
                                                            (#931931)

 cdo                     (1.9.7.1-3)                        OK
 mapnik                  (3.0.22+ds-2)                      OK
 mapserver               (7.4.0-1)                          OK
 merkaartor              (0.18.3+ds-6)                      OK
 metview                 (5.3.0-2)                          OK [+]
                                                            (#931945)
 ncl                     (6.6.2-1)                          OK
 openorienteering-mapper (0.8.4-1)                          OK [+]
                                                            (#931935)
 pdal                    (1.8.0+ds-1)                       OK
 postgis                 (2.5.2+dfsg-1)                     OK
 qmapshack               (1.13.0-1)                         OK
 r-cran-sf               (0.7-6+dfsg-1)                     OK
 saga                    (2.3.1+dfsg-5)                     FTBFS
                                                            (#931941)
 sumo                    (1.1.0+dfsg1-1)                    OK [+]
                                                            (#931940)
 thuban                  (1.2.2-14)                         FTBFS
                                                            (#931872)
 vtk6                    (6.3.0+dfsg2-2)                    FTBFS
                                                            (#931943)
 vtk7                    (7.1.1+dfsg1-12)                   FTBFS
                                                            (#931944)

 freecad                 (0.18.2+dfsg1-1)                   SKIP
 gammaray                (2.9.0-2.1)                        SKIP
 grass                   (7.6.1-1)                          OK
 ifrit                   (4.1.2-6)                          FTBFS
 lammps                  (0~20181211.gitad1b1897d+dfsg1-2)  FTBFS
 node-mapnik             (3.7.2+dfsg-5)                     OK
 python-mapnik           (1:0.0~20180723-588fc9062-2)       OK
 r-cran-lwgeom           (0.1-5+repack-1)                   FTBFS
                                                            (#931948)
 therion                 (5.4.4ds1-1)                       OK

 qgis                    (3.4.9+dfsg-1)                     TODO


Kind Regards,

Bas