New upstream version of GEOS available

[Chris Hermansen]

The GEOS packages in Feisty and Gutsy are now somewhat old and should be upgraded in Gutsy or Gutsy+1.

The version in Feisty and Gutsy is 2.2.3-3. Current version at http://geos.refractions.net/ is 3.0.0rc4 as of 2007/09/14.

Important geoprocessing bugs have been fixed in the 3.x version and most users of the geoprocessing capability of GEOS will need to build a newer version from source.

[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for your bug report. I'm marking this as triaged.

[Toby Collett (thjc)]

Hardy still has 2.2.3, what are the plans for incorporating 3.0. As far as I know the API is the same so there should be minimal effect of the upgrade.

[Tyler Erickson (tyler-erickson)]

I am also interested in seeing GEOS 3.0 incorporated into Hardy, because of the dependencies of several geospatial applications on this library.

[Nicolai P (nicolaip)]

Working on this (porting from SID).

[Wouter Stomp (wouterstomp-deactivatedaccount)]

Intrepid has 3.0

[Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75)]

The library is there in Intrepid as said by Wouter Stomp

shirish@Mugglewille:~$ aptitude show libgeos-3.0.0
Package: libgeos-3.0.0
New: yes
State: not installed
Version: 3.0.0-5
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libs
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <email address hidden>
Uncompressed Size: 1270k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1-21), libstdc++6 (>= 4.2.1-4)
Description: Geometry engine for Geographic Information Systems - C++ Library
 GEOS provides a spatial object model and fundamental geometric functions. It implements the geometry model
 defined in the OpenGIS Consortium Simple Features Specification for SQL. Functions provided include:

 * spatial predicates (based on the DE-9IM model),
 * overlay functions (intersection, difference, union, symmetric difference),
 * buffer,
 * convex hull,
 * area and distance functions, and
 * topological validity checking

 This package contains the C++ library. A C library is provided by the libgeos-c* package.
Homepage: http://geos.refractions.net/