[Bug 436704] Review Request: mapnik - a Free toolkit for developing mapping applications

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Summary: Review Request: mapnik - a Free toolkit for developing mapping applications


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436704





------- Additional Comments From snecklifter at gmail.com  2008-07-29 16:21 EST -------
(In reply to comment #30)
>   
>   To summarize thread:
> 
>    I would like stay with this stable (no matther that 2 subdrivers are broken),
> its not my first GIS package for fedora, there was others GIS related where I
> offered upstream large 64biness clean and license-due whole chunks rewrites, I
> ATM simply failed with this one mapnik and its a question of time to solve it.
>    I just expressed some frustrations regarding this particular package, lets
> not detail more, i will try manage tham ASAP.
> 
>  Tasaka, if Tom (spot) approve that non-trivial license issue can we go further?
> 
> //cristian.

The work that you have done so far is great and I'm both grateful and relieved
that someone else took up the challenge. However please send your patches
upstream - you have still yet to make any comments on the development mailing
list for this project - they can then be merged into the stable branch as
suggested. I have found them to be extremely receptive and responsive to what I
have sent. Sending patches upstream is one of the core principles of packaging
for Fedora:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WhyUpstream

I would urge you to convert the sed processing and other code-munging present in
the .spec file into a patch and post it to the relevant list.

Regards
Chris


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