[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#603470: libmapnik0.7: package linked against broken external AGG

[Sven Geggus]

Package: libmapnik0.7
Severity: important

The current Version of Mapnik in Debian (squeeze and sid) has been
linked against the AGG library provided by the system.

Looks like this library (2.5.x) is more or less unmaintained. For
this reason mapnik provides a custom Version of the AGG library which
fixes the bugs which causes mapnik to hang.

The discussion about this topic can be found here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/mapnik-users@lists.berlios.de/msg02953.html

I know that the debian policy is to always use external libraries, but
this renders the provided package more or less unusable.

Unfortunately I don't have patches for AGG to fix this without
breaking the debian policy.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.35.4-robert-you-suck+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash