Bug#1035336: release-notes: libgdal-perl dropped in Bookworm

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

Package: release-notes
Severity: normal

The ubiquitous geospatial GDAL library dropped the XS-based Perl binding, almost one
year ago. As a consequence the Perl binding is not more directly supported at
upstream level and developers/users that need a Perl support for GDAL must
migrate to the FFI interface provided by Geo::GDAL::FFI package, available on
CPAN. As a direct consequence, Bookworm is missing a Perl binding for GDAL
(libgdal-perl in Bullseye and previous Debian releases).

A wiki page is available at https://wiki.debian.org/BookwormGdalPerl to help
users to start migration to the new interface.

[Debian Bug Tracking System]

tags -1 patch

Bug #1035336 [release-notes] release-notes: libgdal-perl dropped in Bookworm
Added tag(s) patch.

[Paul Gevers]

Control: tags -1 patch

Hi,

The ubiquitous geospatial GDAL library dropped the XS-based Perl binding.

I have a proposal for the text here:
https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/176

Paul

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