CVS commit: pkgsrc/geography/geos

["Greg Troxel" <gdt%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    pkgsrc
Committed By:   gdt
Date:           Sun Jan 22 23:42:18 UTC 2017

Modified Files:
        pkgsrc/geography/geos: Makefile

Log Message:
Request that geos not be updated to 3.6

Expand on the "is using the geos C++ interface a bug" controversy.
Add osm2pgsql as a geos-C++-using package, and link to the issue where
osm2pgsql says they intend to stop depending on geos.

(Comment-only change; no PKGREVISION++.)


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.27 -r1.28 pkgsrc/geography/geos/Makefile

Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.

Modified files:

Index: pkgsrc/geography/geos/Makefile
diff -u pkgsrc/geography/geos/Makefile:1.27 pkgsrc/geography/geos/Makefile:1.28
--- pkgsrc/geography/geos/Makefile:1.27 Sun Jan 22 15:56:07 2017
+++ pkgsrc/geography/geos/Makefile      Sun Jan 22 23:42:18 2017
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
-# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.27 2017/01/22 15:56:07 gdt Exp $
+# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.28 2017/01/22 23:42:18 gdt Exp $
 
+# Do not update to 3.6, because there is serious ABI breakage which
+# prevents osm2pgsql from working, and may well cause other programs
+# to have issues.  osm2pgsql plans to stop using geos, and it seems
+# better to have slightly old geos in pkgsrc then to have a bunch of
+# broken other programs.  Please email me if you have a problem with
+# this.  -- gdt, 20160122
 DISTNAME=      geos-3.5.1
 CATEGORIES=    geography
 MASTER_SITES=  http://download.osgeo.org/geos/
@@ -13,12 +19,16 @@ EXTRACT_SUFX=       .tar.bz2
 # interface should not be directly used and other packages should not
 # link against it.  Therefore, pkgsrc will perform a recursive revbump
 # when the geos_c shlib version changes, and will generally ignore
-# geos shlib name changes.
+# geos shlib name changes.  However, people on the geos list dispute
+# this characterization.
 
-# The following packages incorrectly (from the geos viewpoint) link
-# directly against -lgeos and should be revbumped on every update (and
-# fixed not to use -lgeos):
+# The following packages either incorrectly (from the geos
+# READMEviewpoint) or suboptimally (from some comments ont he list)
+# link directly against -lgeos and should be revbumped on every update
+# (and perhaps fixed not to use -lgeos):
 #   geography/gdal-lib
+#   geoggraph/osm2pgsql
+#     https://github.com/openstreetmap/osm2pgsql/issues/634
 
 MAINTAINER=    gdt%NetBSD.org@localhost
 HOMEPAGE=      https://trac.osgeo.org/geos