[FFe] Inclusion of Mapnik 0.7.0

[Christophe Sauthier]

Mapnik is one of the main tools used in GIS in both server side and client side (thanks to the different bindings). Currently the version included in the repository is the 0.6.1, but 0.7.0 is out for some time and it would be great to have it included in lucid due the LTS aspect of that release. In fact 0.7.0 is (quoting upstream), "essentially 0.6.2 in spirit, but we have to increment the ABI because C++ is a bit touchy".

We can also rely on a very present, and active upstream that is following bugs directly in launchpad and I have very good intreactions with them.

The 0.7.0 fixes a lot of bugs that are present in the 0.6.1, as stated in the diff of the Upstream's Changelog.

The examples that are present in the ubuntu packages, which are provided by upstream, tests the main features of mapnik, they are of course successfully building and running using 0.7.0.

Mapnik 0.7.0 is now in debian testing, and it includes most of the ubuntu specific changes so a merge to debian testing would be a wise choice.

[springmeyer (springmeyer)]

Thanks Christophe for working to get Mapnik 0.7.0 in Lucid - all tests are passing for me on lucid and this would be a great thing to have included in the LTS.

Hopefully the release managers can approve soon.

- Dane (Upstream Mapnik developer)

[Manel Clos (manel-clos)]

It will be really good to have 0.7.0 included. I've been using it on karmic for some time with postgis and it works really well. I'm now using 0.7.1 (to be released) and is working perfectly as well.

[springmeyer (springmeyer)]

Mapnik 0.7.1 will also be released in several days: http://trac.mapnik.org/milestone/0.7.1

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

libmapnik-dev has one rdepend, gpsdrive. Please verify it builds and works with the new mapnik.

[Christophe Sauthier (christophe.sauthier)]

I am preparing the FFe request based on a merge proposal with debian
testing, and thus I will test the rdepends.

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 2:44 AM, Scott Kitterman <email address hidden> wrote:
> libmapnik-dev has one rdepend, gpsdrive. Please verify it builds and
> works with the new mapnik.
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> [FFe] Inclusion of Mapnik 0.7.0
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/526070
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[Christophe Sauthier (christophe.sauthier)]

I have tested gpsdrive, it builds and works with the new mapnik (tested in my pbuilder for the buid and my vm for the test)

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

FFe approved. Go ahead.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package mapnik - 0.7.0-2ubuntu1

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mapnik (0.7.0-2ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * Merge from debian testing (LP: #526070), remaining changes:
    - Bump boost build-dep and libmapnik-dev depends to boost1.40
 -- Christophe Sauthier <email address hidden> Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:07:40 +0100