Bug#833756: mapnik: FTBFS with gcc6/boost1.61/icu57

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 03:46:18PM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> I'm well aware of the mapnik build failure with Boost 1.61 as I've been
> following the transitions closely.
> 
> Mapnik 3.0.12-rc1 has support for Boost 1.61 and is available in
> experimental along with the rest of the Mapnik family which needed to be
> rebuilt with Mapnik 3.0.12 (along with changes for the new Mapnik).

alright, thanks for the specification!
and sorry if I caused too much noise :)

> I'm going to wait at least a week before moving the packages from
> experimental to unstable. Hopefully Mapnik 3.0.12 final will be released
> by then, along with a new node-mapnik that officially support 3.0.12. I
> prefer to not have pre-releases in unstable.

this sounds like a good plan, a week (or even 2, considering how big is
this transition) is great.

> Ubuntu as usual has not
> bothered to coordinate with the maintainers in Debian, and has already
> synced the updated Mapnik packages from experimental, which I think is
> premature.

oh, well…

but anyway, ubuntu's developmenent releases are not widely used so I
wouldn't care too much if I were you.


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