Remove mapbox-variant 1.1.2-1~exp1 from yakkety

[Bas Couwenberg]

The mapnik family of packages have been synced from Debian experimental (without coordinating with the maintainers in Debian) because mapnik 3.0.11 doesn't support Boost 1.61.

Now that the DebianImportFreeze has started the final version (which hasn't been released yet) won't be find its way into the yakkety release.

Syncing the mapnik packages from Debian experimental was very premature. In the future, please don't sync packages from experimental unless explicitly asked to by the maintainers in Debian, or talk to maintainers in Debian before doing so.

The mapnik family of packages in their current shape should not ship with yakkety, please remove them before the yakkety release.

In the future, when packages break due to transitions as these, remove the packages (or move them to proposed) instead of diverging from Debian. Packages in universe are pretty much unmaintained in Ubuntu, and removing such packages is preferable over shipping not properly integrated packages.

[Bas Couwenberg (sebastic)]

Thanks for syncing the final releases from Debian unstable. My criticism of syncing from Debian experimental without coordinating with the maintainers in Debian still stands. Please improve your procedures and collaboration with Debian. I'm still very displeased about how this situation with Mapnik was handled by Ubuntu.