Drop pdal from ubuntu CI

This requires compilation of PDAL (since it's not available in
the Ubuntu repos), which takes a LONG time and adds substantially
to the CI run time.

We retain test coverage via the Fedora builds.

.docker/docker-qgis-build.sh

@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ cmake \
  -DWITH_SERVER=ON \
  -DWITH_SERVER_LANDINGPAGE_WEBAPP=${WITH_SERVER_LANDINGPAGE_WEBAPP} \
  -DWITH_ORACLE=ON \
- -DWITH_PDAL=ON \
+ -DWITH_PDAL=${WITH_PDAL} \
  -DWITH_QTSERIALPORT=ON \
  -DWITH_PDF4QT=${WITH_PDF4QT} \
  -DWITH_SFCGAL=${WITH_SFCGAL} \

.docker/qgis3-ubuntu-qt6-build-deps.dockerfile

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 
 ARG DISTRO_VERSION=25.04
-ARG PDAL_VERSION=2.8.4
 
 # Oracle Docker image is too large, so we add as less dependencies as possible
 # so there is enough space on GitHub runner
@@ -9,8 +8,6 @@ LABEL org.opencontainers.image.authors="Denis Rouzaud <denis@opengis.ch>"
 
 LABEL Description="Docker container with QGIS dependencies" Vendor="QGIS.org" Version="1.0"
 
-ARG PDAL_VERSION
-
 # && echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu xenial main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list \
 # && echo "deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu xenial main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list \
 # && apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 314DF160 \
@@ -141,24 +138,11 @@ RUN locale-gen
 
 RUN echo "alias python=python3" >> ~/.bash_aliases
 
-# PDAL is not available in ubuntu 24.04
-# Install it from source
-# PDAL dependencies
 RUN  apt-get update \
      && DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y \
      ninja-build \
      libgdal-dev \
      libproj-dev
-# download PDAL and compile it
-RUN curl -L https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL/releases/download/${PDAL_VERSION}/PDAL-${PDAL_VERSION}-src.tar.gz --output PDAL-${PDAL_VERSION}-src.tar.gz \
-    && mkdir pdal \
-    && tar zxf PDAL-${PDAL_VERSION}-src.tar.gz -C pdal --strip-components=1 \
-    && rm -f PDAL-${PDAL_VERSION}-src.tar.gz \
-    && mkdir -p pdal/build \
-    && cd pdal/build \
-    && cmake -GNinja -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local -DWITH_TESTS=OFF .. \
-    && ninja \
-    && ninja install
 
 # download spatialindex and compile it
 RUN curl -L https://github.com/libspatialindex/libspatialindex/releases/download/2.0.0/spatialindex-src-2.0.0.tar.gz --output spatialindex-src-2.0.0.tar.gz \

.github/workflows/run-tests.yml

@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ jobs:
             with-grass7: OFF
             with-grass8: OFF
             with-pdf4qt: OFF
+            with-pdal: OFF
             with-sfcgal: ON
             with-compile-commands: ON
             with-model-test: ON
@@ -74,6 +75,7 @@ jobs:
             with-clazy: OFF
             with-grass7: OFF
             with-grass8: ON
+            with-pdal: ON
             with-pdf4qt: ON
             with-sfcgal: ON
             with-compile-commands: OFF
@@ -172,6 +174,7 @@ jobs:
                      --env WITH_GRASS7=${{ matrix.with-grass7 }} \
                      --env WITH_GRASS8=${{ matrix.with-grass8 }} \
                      --env WITH_PDF4QT=${{ matrix.with-pdf4qt }} \
+                     --env WITH_PDAL=${{ matrix.with-pdal }} \
                      --env LD_PRELOAD=${{ matrix.LD_PRELOAD }} \
                      --env WITH_CLAZY=${{ matrix.with-clazy }} \
                      --env WITH_SFCGAL=${{ matrix.with-sfcgal }} \