[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#880072: node-mapnik doesn't appear to be linking correctly, making it unusable

[Adam Conrad]

Package: node-mapnik
Version: 3.6.2+dfsg-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

On both Debian and Ubuntu, executing the simple autopkgtest command for
node-mapnik (nodejs -e "require('mapnik');") leads to an error resolving
symbols:

Debian:
-------
Error: /usr/lib/nodejs/mapnik/lib/binding/mapnik.node: undefined symbol: _ZN6mapnik15freetype_engine10face_namesEv
    at Error (native)
    at Object.Module._extensions..node (module.js:597:18)
    at Module.load (module.js:487:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:497:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/nodejs/mapnik/lib/mapnik.js:31:15)
    at Module._compile (module.js:570:32)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10)

Ubuntu:
-------
Error: /usr/lib/nodejs/mapnik/lib/binding/mapnik.node: undefined symbol: _ZN6mapnik14save_to_stringINS_5imageINS_7rgba8_tEEEEESsRKT_RKSsRKNS_12rgba_paletteE
    at Error (native)
    at Object.Module._extensions..node (module.js:597:18)
    at Module.load (module.js:487:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:497:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/nodejs/mapnik/lib/mapnik.js:31:15)
    at Module._compile (module.js:570:32)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10)

This pretty clearly makes the package entirely unusable (unless there's
some other way to use it correctly, and the autopkgtest is incorrect?)

... Adam

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers bionic
  APT policy: (500, 'bionic')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-16-lowlatency (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages node-mapnik depends on:
ii  libc6          2.26-0ubuntu2
ii  libgcc1        1:7.2.0-12ubuntu1
pn  libmapnik3.0   <none>
ii  libstdc++6     7.2.0-12ubuntu1
pn  mapnik-utils   <none>
pn  node-pre-gyp   <none>
pn  nodejs         <none>
pn  nodejs-abi-48  <none>
pn  nodejs-dev     <none>

Versions of packages node-mapnik recommends:
pn  node-carto    <none>
pn  node-srs      <none>
pn  node-zipfile  <none>

node-mapnik suggests no packages.