Re: [DebianGIS] tilecache package for Etch
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 02:40:34PM +0100, Ivan Mincik wrote:
> On Monday 05 January 2009, Paul Wise wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Ivan Mincik <ivan.mincik@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Has anybody an experience what kind of problems can I expect if I will lower python-support dependency version to 0.5.6 to make it installable in Etch ?
> >
> > Probably none. The best way to do that is to rebuild it on an etch system:
> >
> > apt-get install python python-support python-setuptools
> > build-essential devscripts fakeroot
> > dget -x http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/tilecache/tilecache_2.03-1.dsc
> > cd tilecache-2.03
> > debuild
> > sudo debi
> >
> > If that works, perhaps a DD could upload the result to etch-backports
> > on backports.org.
> Yes, rebuilding went fine. I have tested resulting package by running /usr/sbin/tilecache_seed and /usr/sbin/tilecache_http_server. It seems to be OK. It would be fine to get it into backports.
>
> For running /usr/sbin/tilecache_http_server there is dependency on wsgiref (http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/wsgiref). It doesn't exist in Etch, but it is in Lenny.
> Shouldn't it be marked as dependency in Lenny package ?
No, because the tilecache package itself doesn't require it; it's an
optional component that some configurations need. (Essentially,
tilecache_http_server is an 'example' server; it's not designed to be
the only way to use TileCache, and I wouldn't recommend it for
production.)
You could argue that one of the following should happen:
* The tilecache http server should be packaged in another binary
package, which had a dependancy on python-wsgiref | python >= 2.5
* There should be a Suggests of python-wsgiref
* The documentation should mention that this is a dependancy of running
the server.
I chose the latter; the manpage explains that you need wsgiref to run
the http_server.
Regards,
--
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta
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