On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:56:21 -0600, Kai Krueger wrote: > - Mapnik is currently packaged in version 2.0.0 (sid), whereas the > current upstream is 2.1 (Released August 2012). With the default OSM > stylesheet soon to move over to requiring mapnik 2.1 and the popular > style designer tilemill also seemingly requiring mapnik 2.1, it would be > good to get mapnik updated to 2.1 in debian-gis. I haven't updated it just because of the freeze. > - osm2pgsql seems to not have been updated to a new upstream release in > a year and it would be nice to get a newer upstream release into debian, > as there have been a couple of new features and bug fixes since then. > > - osmosis also could do with an update to the latest upstream release. I'll update these two ASAP. Been busy with real life issues, and haven't had much requests to update them. Now I have one :) > - Tilemill [2] is not currently packaged in debian-gis. It is a nice > tool for designing mapnik rendering styles and makes it fairly easy to > create your own interesting map styles. I've been struggling with this for more than one year; I've been packaging LOTS of nodejs modules to make it work, and it still didn't, last time I tried. I think I gave up on this, making things consistent with nodejs "things" is _officially_ a mess (i.e. nodejs upstream DISCOURAGES using system-wide libraries, but instead encourages embedding modules -- which is not what we want). > I would like to help improve the situation and get all the packages > up-to-date. Particularly, though, I would like to help get mod_tile and > renderd (for which I am the upstream maintainer) packaged and into > debian-gis (and from there on into Ubuntu). I think pkg-osm could be a good candidate as well :) 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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