On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 08:24:49PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > On 4/23/09, Lee Bengston <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If someone out there is using 8.10, could you check whether the proj > >> package > >> there has the same error? I have chosen to stick with 8.04 for its full > >> 3 year support term and not upgrade to a completely new version every 6 > >> months. > > > > I didn't have Ubuntu 8.10 handy, but on Mepis 8.0, which is Debian > > Lenny based, the problem is there: > > > > # cs2cs +proj=latlong +datum=NAD83 +to +proj=latlong +datum=NAD27 > > 106d38'17.94"W 35d15'40.14"N > > 106d38'17.94"W 35d15'40.14"N -0.000 > > > > So, I expect that Debian 5.0 and most if not all of its relatives have > > the same problem. That said, I noticed a while back that Mepis 8.0 > > grabs Berkeley libdb version 4.6 via Synaptic, which is the same as > > Ubuntu 8.04. Meanwhile Ubuntu 8.10 grabs version 4.7, so perhaps it > > has a newer proj version in its repositories as well. > > Now that I am home - same issue on Xubuntu 8.10 > > $ cs2cs +proj=latlong +datum=NAD83 +to +proj=latlong +datum=NAD27 > 106d38'17.94"W 35d15'40.14"N > 106d38'17.94"W 35d15'40.14"N -0.000
Sigh. That probably means that a bug report should be filed. Fixing this is trivial for the package maintainer --- it involves downloading one extra tar file and unpacking it inside the source tree. Where does one do that for Ubuntu/Debian packages? -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM In some cultures what I do would be considered normal. -- Ineffective daily affirmation _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
