GDAL source for Debian
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This package uses dpatch to manage all modifications to the upstream
source. Changes are stored in the source package as diffs in
debian/patches and applied during the build.

To get detailed instructions on how to apply the series of patches
and modify them, please read /usr/share/doc/dpatch/README.source.

Most of applied patches are due to Debian Policy requirements and
the need of avoiding hidden breakages at every new release, due
to ABI changes in the public C++ interface. This is the reason
to embed versions within package and library names.

Note that debian/rules includes three targets (gdal-{grass,ecw,mrsid})
to autogenerate Grass/ECW/MrSID external plugins, which are coherent
with the plain package provided in Debian. The only plugin which 
is supported upstream is the Grass one. Do not bother upstream 
with bugs or requests about the other ones.

 -- Francesco Paolo Lovergine <frankie@debian.org>  Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:45:56 +0200