[Pkg-grass-general] Re: Why is mapserver configured without tiff and pdf support?

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Silke Reimer]
> Yes, it is. UMN MapServer uses pdflib as PDF-library with is
> non-free. So it should not be enabled if we want to have the UMN
> MapServer into main.

Right.  Is this documented in the debian package files?  I suggest a
comment in the rules file to make it easy to find.

> If you have gdal available (which is true for the current
> mapserver-package) it is better to use the gdal to read geotiffs.
> The native tiff-support of the UMN MapServer is sometimes broken for
> example if you try to read WMS-layers with it. It can result in
> black images or images with distorted colours (at least this is the
> case in older versions of the UMN MapServer).

Oh.  This should probably be mentioned in debian/rules as well.