Limit GDAL version to avoid mask map issues in lisflood-utilities writers

Author: doc78

.github/workflows/ci_env.yml

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Install gdal and pcraster
       shell: bash -el {0}
       run: |
-        conda install -c conda-forge gdal pcraster
+        conda install -c conda-forge "gdal<=3.5.3" pcraster
     - name: Install dependencies
       shell: bash -el {0}
       run: |

README.md

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ You can use conda environment to easily install dependencies.
 ```bash
 conda create --name lisflood python=3.8 -c conda-forge
 conda activate lisflood
-conda install -c conda-forge pcraster gdal
+conda install -c conda-forge pcraster "gdal<=3.5.3"
 ```
 
 * Install lisflood-model pypi package
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ git clone --single-branch --branch master https://github.com/ec-jrc/lisflood-cod
 ```bash
 conda create --name lisflood python=3.8 -c conda-forge
 conda activate lisflood
-conda install -c conda-forge pcraster gdal
+conda install -c conda-forge pcraster "gdal<=3.5.3"
 cd lisflood-code
 pip install -r requirements.txt
 ```

docs/3_step2_installation/index.md

@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ Follow this instruction for a basic test (some sample catchments are included in
 ```bash
 conda create --name lisflood python=3.8 -c conda-forge
 conda activate lisflood
-conda install -c conda-forge pcraster
+conda install -c conda-forge pcraster "gdal<=3.5.3"
 cd lisflood-code
 pip install -r requirements.txt
 ```

envflex.yml

@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@ channels:
 dependencies:
   - python=3.8
   - pcraster
-  - gdal
+  - gdal<=3.5.3
   - pip

requirements.txt

@@ -4,8 +4,7 @@ cftime>=1.0.4.2
 coverage>=6.0
 dask>=2021.10.0 
 future>=0.18.0
-#GDAL==3.5.3
-GDAL>=3.2.0
+GDAL>=3.2.0,<= 3.5.3
 importlib-metadata<5.0.0
 iniconfig>=1.1.1
 lisflood-utilities>=0.12.19