[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#569585: Bug#569585: gmt-coastline-download installs files but they are not seen by GMT

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 06:00:43PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote:
> Package: gmt-coast-low
> Version: 1:1.10-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Thank you for maintaining GMT.
> 
> I have just run gmt-coastline-download and it worked fine, the files are
> there, however:
> 
> $ GMT psbasemap -R12/16.5/36/39 -Jm1i -B0 -P -K -U"Sicily test" >  /tmp/foo.ps
> $ GMT pscoast -R12/16.5/36/39 -Jm1i -O -K -Bg30 -Df -Wlightgray >> /tmp/foo.ps
> pscoast: full resolution shoreline data base not installed
> pscoast: No databases available - aborts
> 
> I noticed that GMT's README.Debian mentions "files ending with .cfg"
> that are not present in the downloaded tarballs, but that may be a typo
> in the README.Debian.
> 
> 

Just to sum up the problem: the whole coastline files have been updated
about half of January at release 2.0.2. Apparently that implies that
any version below 4.5.2 cannot use the new files. This is unfortunately
a problem because the upstream site does not retain the old versions.

My original idea was re-introducing ASAP the medium and hig-res coastlines,
but it poses some problems which are naturally solved by the future(?)
Debian data archiving facility.

Currently this problem will be solved by moving to 4.5.2, but it is still
a problem in Lenny or Etch, for instance where only old versions are available.

Suggestions?

-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine