Bug#138971: ITP Mapserver
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On Aug 18, 2004, at 8:30 AM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Robert Jordens wrote:
You participated in the discussion about packaging the UMN masperver
for
Debian. Who of you is still interested in working of the package? What
are the problems?
I have packages, and am still using MapServer (so can test new ones).
The status is still as posted previously. Packages at
http://cscott.net/Debian/MapServer/
PHP/MapScript is still not included, although I might be a little bit
more
motivated to try.
--scott
I also have been maintaining a debian package for mapserver. I have not
kept as up-to-date with the upstream releases as Scott has (I'm at
4.0.1) but hey isn't that the Debian way?
Add to your /etc/apt/sources.list if you want:
deb http://www.paulbaker.net/debian stable main
deb-src http://www.paulbaker.net/debian stable main
I should mention that I have built my package against Woody (by also
backporting all of the dependencies, and whoa was that a lot of work).
My package is also mentioned on the MapServer wiki:
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?DebianLinux
I have broken mine out into three separate packages: mapserver-cgi,
mapserver-utils, and libmapscript-perl. I have not attempted to build
any of the other Mapscript language bindings.
My hope was to one day upload the package into Debian, but don't feel
it is quite yet ready. The main things I see as show stoppers are:
1. No manpages for any of the utils. Policy requires each to have
a manpage. No upstream plan to provide these.
2. Definitely would want to build a mapscript-php4 package.
I have not spent much time trying to make this happen.
3. Probably would also want to build a mapscript-python package.
4. Finally, we may want to provide multiple flavours as of the package.
Mapserver can be compiled with A LOT of features, or very few
features.
But everything is pretty much either turned on or off at compile
time.
So do you build the package with everything compiled in? Or do you
scale it back? Or do you provide multiple versions?
These are all things I wanted to sort out before wasting Debian's time
with the package. But if there is a sponsor (you Robert) that is
willing to help work through these issues, I have no problem wasting
your time. :-)
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