On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 11:56:31AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [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. No, it isn't documented (see [1]). Thomas, would you mind to add a remark in debian rules? > > > 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. (see above) Greetings, Silke [1] http://pkg-grass.alioth.debian.org/debian-gis/pool/m/mapserver/mapserver_4.4.1-0.dgis.unstable.1.diff.gz -- Intevation GmbH Georgstrasse 4 49074 Osnabrück, Germany http://intevation.de http://intevation.de/~silke FreeGIS.org http://freegis.org/
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