Please sync gdal 1.5.4-2 (universe) from Debian unstable

[Patrice Vetsel]

1.5.2-3 is bugged. Upstream have released 1.5.3 and 1.5.4 that are just bug fixes releases !

GDAL/OGR 1.5.3 ¶

    * #601 (GTiff): Correct handling of non-degree angular units.
    * #2285 (Python): Handle other pixel types in BandWriteArray?() (64bit pct2rgb)
    * #2604 (configure): Better support for cross compiling.
    * #2601 (PGeo): Correct TestCapability?() return values.
    * #2593 (ECW): Warn/error on illegal pixel data types written.
    * #2591 (NetCDF): Fix extreme memory use for large images.
    * #2589 (Shape): Various fixes for inner/outer ring categorization.
    * #2598 (ERS): Add support for HeaderOffset? keyword.
    * #2596 (NITF): Fallback to .aux.xml (PAM) for nodata values.
    * #2586 (alg): Fix gdalsimplewarp on 64bit platforms.
    * #2575 (SRS): Improve oblique mercator morphing to/from ESRI PE format.
    * #2579 (FITS): Fix int32 case on 64bit platforms.
    * #2576 (raw): Fix crash when pixel offset is zero.
    * #2573 (ISIS3): Fix handling of multiband tiled files.
    * #2571 (ILWIS): Avoid exporting global called 'line'.
    * #2243 (HFA): Add FORCETOPESTRING option, ProjectionX applied to all bands.
    * #2564 (warper): Fix CInt16 support in warper.
    * #2562 (PAM): Allow empty category in .aux.xml and .vrt
    * #2546 (GTiff): Fix problems updating geotiff SRS in place.
    * #2554 (testepsg): Now built by default.
    * #2548 (esri2wkt): Fixed for use with NG Python bindings.
    * #???? (SDE): Remove inappropriate errors generation in SDE Open.
    * #???? (ECW): Correct manifest generation for plugin.
    * #2443 (JPEG): Improved handling for YCbCr, CMYK and YCbCrK JPEG files.
    * #2523 (HFA): Fix problem with compressed files with uninitialized blocks.
    * #2535 (JPEG): Fix restart problem in rare circumstances.
    * #2532 (NITF): Support decoding 12bit images.
    * #2533 (SRS): Ensure Clear() properly clears OGRSpatialReference state.
    * #2220 (OGR SQL): Improved string quote handling in OGR SQL.
    * #2528 (gcore): Fixed nodata mask handling for negative integer bands.
    * #1979 (port): Correct problems with CPLSPrintf/CPLString use.
    * #2525 (HFA): Fix crash in compressing data larger than 16bits.
    * #2425 (HFA): Open dependent file with same permissions as master file.
    * #2518 (warper): Fix thread handling in multiprocessing case.
    * #2513 (E00): Error out instead of crashing on compressed E00 files.
    * #2512 (GTiff): Ensure flushing works properly.
    * #1345 (configure): Improve PROJ.4 related search logic.
    * #2505 (HFA): Support nodata from .aux file.
    * #2508 (gdal_grid): Fix geotransform when -txe, -tye not provided.
    * #2504 (gcore): Fix nodata masking generation for odd pixel types.
    * #2499 (gcore): Fix crash in creation option validation.
    * #2494 (HDF4): Removed useless and dangerous redefinition of sincos().
    * #2459 (swig): Improve handling of strings the caller may not change.
    * #2475 (NITF): Fix 'adding BLOCKA TRE precludes writing IGEOLO'
    * #???? (swig): fix typemaps for SetMetadata?()
    * #2426, #1986, #1677 (swig): Added to support GetGCPs, SetGCPs and GCPsToGeoTransform in the C# bindings
    * #2473 (swig): Avoid boolean related compile warning
    * #2471 (HFA): Avoid using .aux files with mismatched raster model.
    * #2472 (PCRaster): Add overview support.
    * #2465 (ADRG): Fix warning about not supporting update access.
    * #2464 (NetCDF): Fixed windows plugin name.
    * #2410 (MRSID): Improve support for DSDK 7.x.
    * #2457 (gcore): Improve reading when block cache is too small.
    * #2360 (GTiff): Fix problems writing odd bit depths.
    * #2455 (ogr2ogr): Fix the -gt option operation.
    * #2454 (ogr core): improve spatial filtering with polygons with holes.
    * #2451 (wince): Fix CPLStrtodDelim() building on WinCE.
    * #2449 (GTiff): Fix crash when using BLOCKYSIZE=1 for tiled files.
    * #2448 (GTiff): Handle mix of TIFF+PAM metadata properly.
    * #2428 (Shape): Add OGR_ORGANIZE_POLYGONS configuration option.
    * #2427 (HFA): Correct some problems with unitialized blocks and updating.
    * #2422 (HFA): Improve save/load of names for SRS.
    * #2437 (port): Improve handling of large file errors on different platforms.
    * #2415 (PAM/VRT): store nodata values in binary form to preserve precision.
    * #2436 (HFA): Support writing 1/2/4 bit data.
    * #2320 (ECW/JP2ECW): Fix up plugin naming.
    * #2435 (GTiff): Push JPEG compressed data into block cache to avoid redecoding
    * #2434 (alg): Make GeoLoc? transformer more robust in case of errors.
    * #1000 (HFA): Fix reading of reduced precision 32bit floating point blocks.
    * #2396 (FITS): Fix crash if metadata is found.
    * #2409 (ogr2ogr): Force -gt to 1 with -skipfailures.

GDAL/OGR 1.5.4 ¶

    * #2462 (HDF5): Fix SUBDATSET numbering from zero to from one.
    * #2767 (PG): Fix crash on GetFeature?(fid) where fid is invalid.
    * #2732 (JP2KAK): fix ycbcr to rgb converted images in DirectRasterIO
    * #2399 (JPEG2000): Fix handling of images with dimensions not multiple of 256
    * #2757 (CSV): Ignore .csvt files when opening a CSV datasource.
    * #2741 (gdaltindex): Fix handle, memory leak for skipped files.
    * #2724 (VRT): Honour INIT_DEST warp option for warped VRT files.
    * #2724 (VRT): Fix reading of nodata values from XML.
    * #2716 (HFA): Support reading 3rd order XFORMs.
    * #1242 (OGDI): Improve finding PROJ.4 include files for OGDI driver.
    * #2709 (GML): Treat feature class name tests as case sensitive.
    * #2708 (GML): Fix potential buffer overflow in parser.
    * #2688 (python): Fix win32 error handling crash.
    * #2445 (warper): Avoid divide by zero if source size is zero.
    * #2040 (NITF): Add support for RPC00A ordering.
    * #1866 (GPX/KML): Add support for building against expat 1.95.0 to 1.95.7
    * #2699 (GTiff): Avoid calling TIFFFreeDirectory() with old libtiffs.
    * #2690 (Interlis): Support GCC 4.4.
    * #2689 (MRSID): Fix overflow in window calc for very large files.
    * #2659 (SRS): Support Cylindrical Equal Area projections from EPSG.
    * #2474 (Shape): Support writing datetime fields in .dbf
    * #2681 (SRS): Support Mercator_2SP in ValidateProjection?().
    * #2679 (JPEG2000): Fix FORMAT option support.
    * #2678 (SRS): Support EXTENSION nodes in WKT.
    * #2645 (GTiff): Fix creation of YCbCr JPEG compressed files.
    * #1484 (PGeo): treat type 50 geometries as SHPT_ARC.
    * #2642 (GTiff): Ensure zip/jpeg quality preserved over crystalize().
    * #1526 (S57): Corrections to handle double type 8211 attributes better.
    * #2629 (MRSID): 64 bit fix in metadata formatting.
    * #1983 (GRASS): Use G_free() instead of free.
    * #2237 (gdalgrid): fix nearest neighbour interpolation regression.
    * #2622 (GTiff): Add mechanism to split up large one block one bit files.
    * #2619 (PG): Allow VACUUM in ExecuteSQL() without a transaction.
    * #2609 (HDF4): Support building with HDF4.2r3.
    * #2615 (warper): Fix support for TPS transformer with negative coordinates.
    * #2428 (shape): Performan fix for organizePolygon() in one outer ring case.

[Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp)]

Hi,

The new debian version has the same problem with libtool than the one described in Bug #284910, so it's still FTBFS for the moment...

[Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp)]

1.5.4 will be in Jaunty