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

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 03:45:01PM +0100, David Paleino wrote:
> It's a 2.3, at least from what agg/copying says.
> 
> > Seriously someone should consider an AGG fork from 2.4
> > which is something maybe mapserver folks already did.
> 
> Francesco, do you know if such a fork has been officially announced, with
> proper releases and such?
> It might make sense to provide a separate package (but this is surely
> post-Squeeze) to link against. So that we don't need N copies of libagg spread
> around the archive.
> 

Current committers are simply working on the 2.4 tree, due to obvious
license concerns. You can simply check https://agg.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/agg 
and consult the mailing list to check. Maxim has simply lost interest
and current working happens onto a specific 2.4 branch. I wonder if
maintaining 2.5 in Debian makes sense. Also notes that agg is
essentially a template library, so distributing shlibs
is a non-sense, because instances are defined by use.
That's the reason to have a -dev package only. There's nothing like
a 'system wide' library in proper sense.

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Francesco P. Lovergine