Removed gpsbabel from SPECS-EXTENDED and removed its dependency in gdal, updated minizip-ng and freexl dependency issue and resolved test case failure in liblerc

[v-aaditya]

Merge Checklist

All boxes should be checked before merging the PR (just tick any boxes which don't apply to this PR)

• The toolchain has been rebuilt successfully (or no changes were made to it)
• The toolchain/worker package manifests are up-to-date
• Any updated packages successfully build (or no packages were changed)
• Packages depending on static components modified in this PR (Golang, *-static subpackages, etc.) have had their Release tag incremented.
• Package tests (%check section) have been verified with RUN_CHECK=y for existing SPEC files, or added to new SPEC files
• All package sources are available
• cgmanifest files are up-to-date and sorted (./cgmanifest.json, ./toolkit/scripts/toolchain/cgmanifest.json, .github/workflows/cgmanifest.json)
• LICENSE-MAP files are up-to-date (./LICENSES-AND-NOTICES/SPECS/data/licenses.json, ./LICENSES-AND-NOTICES/SPECS/LICENSES-MAP.md, ./LICENSES-AND-NOTICES/SPECS/LICENSE-EXCEPTIONS.PHOTON)
• All source files have up-to-date hashes in the *.signatures.json files
• sudo make go-tidy-all and sudo make go-test-coverage pass
• Documentation has been updated to match any changes to the build system
• Ready to merge

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Summary

• Removed gpsbabel package from SPECS-EXTENDED
• Removed gpsbabel dependency from gdal and removed "test-unit" test case from gdal as it was getting failed.
• Rebuilt minizip-ng package to build "minizip-compat-devel" which is needed by "freexl" package.
• Updated dependency package name in "freexl" to "minizip-compat-devel" as the "minizip" package name has been renamed to "minizip-ng". Reference PR - Rename and Upgrade: minizip 2.10.1 to minizip-ng 4.0.7 #12599
• Resolved test case failure and license issues in liblerc package.

Build/Dependency Information

Kindly build below dependency packages with gdal -
"blosc ilmbase uriparser CharLS cfitsio hdf libdap libgeotiff libgta libkml liblerc netcdf ogdi OpenEXR openjpeg2 proj qhull libbsd minizip-ng freexl"

Change Log

• modified: cgmanifest.json
• modified: LICENSES-AND-NOTICES/SPECS/LICENSES-MAP.md
• modified: LICENSES-AND-NOTICES/SPECS/data/licenses.json
• modified: SPECS-EXTENDED/gdal/gdal.spec
• modified: SPECS-EXTENDED/freexl/freexl.spec
• modified: SPECS-EXTENDED/liblerc/liblerc.spec
• modified: SPECS-EXTENDED/minizip-ng/minizip-ng.spec
• deleted: SPECS-EXTENDED/gpsbabel/0002-No-solicitation.patch
• deleted: SPECS-EXTENDED/gpsbabel/gpsbabel.png
• deleted: SPECS-EXTENDED/gpsbabel/gpsbabel.signatures.json
• deleted: SPECS-EXTENDED/gpsbabel/gpsbabel.spec

Does this affect the toolchain?

NO

Test Methodology

• Local build was successful.
• License check script shows no warning messages.

-Build logs
gdal-3.6.3-3.azl3.src.rpm.log
gdal-3.6.3-3.azl3.src.rpm.test.log

• Installation Check

• Uninstallation Check

[v-aaditya]

Kindly build below dependency packages with gdal -
"blosc ilmbase uriparser CharLS cfitsio hdf libdap libgeotiff libgta libkml liblerc netcdf ogdi OpenEXR openjpeg2 proj qhull libbsd minizip-ng freexl"

[sandeepkarambelkar]

Buddy Build - https://dev.azure.com/mariner-org/mariner/_build/results?buildId=1032806&view=results