Hello Sven, On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:19:31 +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 02:15:00PM +0100, Sven Geggus wrote: > > The current Version of Mapnik in Debian (squeeze and sid) has been > > linked against the AGG library provided by the system. Yes, this was intended by the previous maintainer, see #493786 . > > Looks like this library (2.5.x) is more or less unmaintained. For > > this reason mapnik provides a custom Version of the AGG library which > > fixes the bugs which causes mapnik to hang. > > > > The discussion about this topic can be found here: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/mapnik-us...@lists.berlios.de/msg02953.html > > > > I know that the debian policy is to always use external libraries, but > > this renders the provided package more or less unusable. > > [..] > > [..] > > That said, the AGG case is quite unfortunate, because AGG 2.5 > is GPL2 and AGG 2.4 is MIT licensed. That implies that the > whole mapnik should be considered GPL-2 released and that > should be noted. This is also something bad, because it > violates the original upstream will IMHO. Note also that > the embedded copy is a 2.3 or 2.4 version, and we used > the same approach for mapserver to avoid those kind > of problems. It's a 2.3, at least from what agg/copying says. > Seriously someone should consider an AGG fork from 2.4 > which is something maybe mapserver folks already did. Francesco, do you know if such a fork has been officially announced, with proper releases and such? It might make sense to provide a separate package (but this is surely post-Squeeze) to link against. So that we don't need N copies of libagg spread around the archive. > My best guessing is moving to the embedded copy > if resulting issues are grave enough to compromise > its use. I need to contact the security and release teams before. I'll reply ASAP. Kindly, David -- . ''`. Debian developer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://deb.li/dapal `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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