Bug#717597: RFS: mapserver/6.2.1-3

[Bas Couwenberg <sebastic@xs4all.nl>]

Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "mapserver"

 Package name    : mapserver
 Version         : 6.2.1-3
 Upstream Author : The MapServer team
 URL             : http://www.mapserver.org/
 License         : MIT/X11
 Section         : devel

It builds those binary packages:

 cgi-mapserver - CGI executable for MapServer
 libmapscript-perl - Perl MapServer module
 libmapscript-ruby - MapServer library for Ruby
 libmapscript-ruby1.8 - MapServer library for Ruby 1.8
 libmapscript-ruby1.9.1 - MapServer library for Ruby 1.9.1
 libmapserver - Transitional dummy package for libmapserver-6.2.1
 libmapserver-6.2.1 - Shared library for MapServer
 libmapserver-6.2.1-dev - Shared library development files for MapServer
 libmapserver-dev - Transitional dummy package for libmapserver-6.2.1-dev
 mapserver-bin - MapServer utilities
 mapserver-doc - documentation for MapServer
 php5-mapscript - php5-cgi module for MapServer
 python-mapscript - Python library for MapServer

To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL:

 http://mentors.debian.net/package/mapserver


Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command:

 dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/mapserver/mapserver_6.2.1-3.dsc

More information about MapServer can be obtained from http://www.mapserver.org/.

Changes since the last upload (to UbuntuGIS PPA):

  * Upload for Debian closes: #706157
  * Merge changes from 6.0.1-4:
    - Migrated to debhelper level 9.
    - Depend on PHP API version instead of libapache2-mod-php5.
    - Bump libgeos-dev build dependency to 3.3.1-1~.
  * Drop possible-gpl-code-linked-with-openssl lintian override.
  * Empty dependency_libs in la files.
  * Use PHP5API variable instead of hardcoded path to la file.
  * Remove RPATH from mapscript libraries.
  * Additional cleanup to allow building twice.
  * Remove unused shlibs:Depends.
  * shp2mysql was removed, no more perl in mapserver-bin.
  * Use --install-layout=deb for python setup.py.
  * Update configure arguments (several no longer supported).
  * Add mapows-contenttype.patch to handle Content-Type headers with a
    charset appended.
  * Drop debian-changes-6.2.1-1 from patch series.
  * Update libgd build dependency to libgd-dev for the libgd2 transition.
  * Enable hardening build flags.
  * Add man page for mapserver utilities:
    - legend
    - msencrypt
    - scalebar
    - shp2img
    - shptree
    - shptreetst
    - shptreevis
    - sortshp
    - tile4ms
    - mapserv
    - mapserver-config
  * Update copyright for v6.2.1. Convert to DEP5 format.
  * Rename libmapserver package to libmapserver-6.2.1 to match SONAME.
  * Add symbols file for libmapserver-6.2.1.so.
  * Add shp2img-typo.patch to fix a typo in the shp2img usage information.
  * Add lintian-overrides for php5-mapscript: unused-debconf-template,
    the maintainer scripts embed a variable in the template name.
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.4 (shared library changes).
  * Replace dpatch with quilt in README.source.
  * Drop README.etch, no longer relevant.
  * Drop README.Debian, no longer used for PHP mapscript.
  * Update TODO.Debian to reflect current status.
  * Add maintainer scripts for libmapserver-6.2.1 to call ldconfig,
    don't call ldconfig for php5-mapscript.
  * Use dh_autoreconf for retooling.


Regards,
 Sebastiaan Couwenberg