[Pkg-grass-devel] depends problems with libgdal1-grass

Silke Reimer Silke.Reimer@intevation.de
Mon, 6 Jun 2005 09:40:02 +0200


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Hi,

On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 05:03:42PM +1200, Hamish wrote:
> Hi,
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> just updating to the new libgdal-grass_1.2.5-0.dgis.unstable.4 and I
> have a depends problem.
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> libgdal-grass (1.2.5-0.dgis.unstable.4) unstable; urgency=3Dlow
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>   * Depend on libgrass. The grass libs have no SONAMES, so the
>     dependency is not automatically included by dh_shlibdeps.
>   * Make Debian GIS Project the maintainer.
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>  -- Steve Halasz <debian@adkgis.org>  Fri,  3 Jun 2005 13:50:40 -0400
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> libgdal-grass now depends on libgrass, and libgrass depends on grass.
> So libgdal-grass effectively depends on grass.
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> I thought the whole point of libgdal-grass was that you didn't need
> grass installed to read GRASS maps.
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> I only want the GDAL-grass plugin on this system. I am using a self-
> compiled GRASS version which isn't installed and only exists in /home/.
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> I can understand libgdal-grass depending on libgrass, but does libgrass
> really need to depend on grass?

No, the main thing was to cut the circular dependencies: grass
build-depending on gdal but gdal build-depending on grass when
compiled with support for grass raster data which os useful
especially for those who use qgis.

Now we have grass build-depending on gdal and libgdal-grass
build-depending on grass while libgdal-grass enables gdal to support
grass raster data.

But I agree thea it would be even better if only libgrass and not
the whole grass package would be needed to install libgdal-grass. I
think this could be the next step but it will need support of the
grass packagers and probably of some of the grass developers to make
a clean seperation of the packages.

Greetings,

	Silke

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