Debian packaging about clipper HOT 4 CLOSED

Thanks for raising this issue. Perhaps a simpler solution would be not to package mapnik-vector-tile separately. The design of mapnik-vector-tile is to be bundled by a developer rather than used as a separate package. Then when doing debian packaging of something that bundled mapnik-vector-tile it and the clipper.hpp would already be there.

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The mapnik-vector-tile package exists because it's required for the node-mapnik package, which in turn is required for the node-tilelive-{bridge,mapnik,vector} packages.

These packages have all been removed from testing (and the next stable release through that) because of the outstanding release critical bug in mapnik-vector-tile. Based on your feedback that seems like a good thing, so we should probably remove mapnik-vector-tile and its reverse dependencies from unstable (and Ubuntu through that) too.

I'm not the maintainer of any of these packages (I've only recently started to help with the mapnik & python-mapnik packages), so I'll need to file some bugs to document the need to removal of these packages from the Debian archive.

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As discussed with @kapouer in Debian Bug #789942, we need to keep the mapnik-vector-tile & node-mapnik packages around in Debian for the time being.

Also from the bugreport:

I've created initial Debian packaging for mapnik/clipper [0], and updated mapnik-vector-tile [1] to use that package.

mapnik-vector-tile (0.10.0+dfsg-1) now builds successfully, but a test does fail.

[0] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-grass/mapnik-clipper.git
[1] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-grass/mapnik-vector-tile.git

Whether or not to bundle the clipper.{c,h}pp files in mapnik-vector-tile is still to be decided. Since it's only two files I'm leaning towards bundling.

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I've opted to bundle clipper.{c,h}pp in the mapnik-vector-tile Debian package for the time being to resolve the outstanding RC bug.

Debian packaging for mapnik-clipper is also available, but unused until there are other packages that need it. This should resolve this issue.

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