Fedora 35 vs. Survex package

[Bill Gee]

I just checked my newly upgraded test Fedora 35 system.  Argh ...  Proj is version 8.1.1.

[bgee at practice21a ~]$ rpm -qi proj 
Name        : proj 
Version     : 8.1.1 
Release     : 1.fc35 
Architecture: x86_64 
Install Date: Thu 04 Nov 2021 10:59:25 AM CDT 
Group       : Unspecified 
Size        : 11783770 
License     : MIT 
Signature   : RSA/SHA256, Wed 01 Sep 2021 06:09:13 PM CDT, Key ID db4639719867c58f 
Source RPM  : proj-8.1.1-1.fc35.src.rpm 
Build Date  : Wed 01 Sep 2021 05:40:32 PM CDT 
Build Host  : buildhw-x86-09.iad2.fedoraproject.org 
Packager    : Fedora Project 
Vendor      : Fedora Project 
URL         : https://proj.org


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Bill Gee


On Thursday, November 4, 2021 2:33:57 PM CDT Olly Betts wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 11:57:02AM +0000, Wookey wrote:
> > Survex works with proj8 now (and is in debian)
> 
> Just to avoid confusion, as of yesterday there's support for PROJ >=
> 8.2.0 in the Survex git repository (git is the version control system we
> used) but a Survex release of this code (the first will be 1.4.0) is
> still to do, and this code isn't yet in Debian.
> 
> This is likely to be almost all resolved by the end of the weekend.
> 
> The exception is if you're stuck with PROJ 8.0.x or 8.1.x packages,
> which would need additional work to support.  I'm hoping we can avoid
> having to worry about those but let us know if you're in this situation.
> So far the only stable distro release I'm aware with such a package is
> OpenBSD 7.0, which I would guess isn't widely used with Survex.
> 
> Cheers,
>     Olly
> 
>