Bug#614783: merkaartor: Merkaartor becoming sluggish after zoom operations

[Steffen Grunewald]

On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 09:47:06PM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> Control: tags -1 upstream unreproducible
> 
> > You just might want to stick with a stable release and install the
> > backport I'll provide in a few days.
> 
> It looks like the backport never happened, but merkaartor (0.18.1-3) has
> been in Debian since wheezy.
> 
> Is this issue still relevant?

Apparently yes, at least in Jessie (and Wheezy, of course).
Zooming in through the "100 m" scale makes the machine extremely slow, 
although there are close to no objects to be handled (and background images
are turned off).
With Bing imagery on, this zooming tends to kill Merkaartor.

> Since I cannot reproduce this issue with the current merkaartor version
> in unstable (0.18.1-3+b7), I'm tempted to close this issue as fixed.

Is there a backport I can try with Jessie? I don't like bugs being
closed when there's no solution for stable...

Cheers,
 Steffen