[Proj] ticket #274: proj_def.dat left out of 4.9.1 tarball

[Howard Butler]

I have applied a patch to trunk to fix this, and I think we should issue a new 4.9.2 release as a result.

Howard

> On May 20, 2015, at 1:56 AM, Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ticket/274
> 
> describes a puzzle we have seen with different behaviour wrt. errno -13. 
> The resolution is to reinstate proj_def.dat in /nad (and installed 
> PROJ_LIB). The Debian binary 4.9.1-1 was put on our testing servers a day 
> or so ago, causing considerable upsets in user R code omitting +ellps=.
> 
> The omission is visible in proj-data:
> 
> https://packages.debian.org/stretch/all/proj-data/filelist
> 
> compared to:
> 
> https://packages.debian.org/jessie/amd64/proj-data/filelist
> 
> Is a 4.9.2 release likely? This is quite a serious problem in that the 
> behaviour of PROJ.4 has changed at the user level from 4.8.0 to 4.9.1, 
> unless the system admin only overwrote PROJ_LIB without deleting it and 
> re-creating.
> 
> Roger
> 
> -- 
> Roger Bivand
> Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics,
> Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen, Norway.
> voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 91 00
> e-mail: Roger.Bivand at nhh.no
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Proj mailing list
> Proj at lists.maptools.org
> http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/proj