gdal (1.8.0-2) unstable; urgency=low Starting from this version GDAL follows the regular SONAME of the C API interface which has to be considered the only officially supported. The library still exports C++ symbols but the Debian package has introduced symbol files and symbol versioning in order to track changes and possibly introduce ad hoc patches whenever requiredi, in order to minimize the number of manual rebuilds of reverse dependencies. The good side effect of versioning script is that all symbols exported by the library which are not part of the GDAL/OGR API set are now definitively hidden. The use of symbol versioning could possibly introduce breakages against third parties binaries not built against the Debian version. Be warned. -- Francesco Paolo Lovergine Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:41:44 +0200 gdal (1.5.0-3) unstable; urgency=low GDAL deprecated the old-style Python binding starting from 1.5 branch, so it has been dropped in Debian. Generally you should not experience big problems, because almost all API functions are supported by the new Swig-based binding. If not, consider that you need to upgrade to the current interface. The old bindings use Numeric, the new SWIG-based use NumPy, for all the rest refer to GDAL documentation. -- Francesco Paolo Lovergine Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:37:07 +0100