[OSM-dev] tirex and mapnik 3, make deb fails

[Stephan Knauss]

Jan-Benedict Glaw writes:

> On Tue, 2014-07-01 01:58:38 +0200, Stephan Knauss <osm at stephans-server.de> wrote:
>> I try to compile tirex (mapnik backend) against Mapnik 3.
>> changing this line in debian/rules allowed me to ignore the error:
>> dh_shlibdeps --dpkg-shlibdeps-params=--ignore-missing-info
>
> Won't work: A dep is missing and the resulting program will only run
> IFF the user has the lib already installed.

So in my case this is perfectly fine. As I'm installing for a local machine  
where mapnik is also build.
Mapnik 3 is not yet released and based on mapnik mailing list advise it's  
better compiled directly from git instead of using some (outdated?) nightly  
build from a ppd. So no packages available.


The reason of doing a "make deb" instead of "make install" is the update  
path.
I once made the mistake in the past and upgraded tirex to a new version to  
have access to bugfixes. The "make install" was simply overwriting already  
existing configuration files.
Frederik or Jochen recommended using the deb package method for updates as  
it should take care for changes in already existing config files.

So I worry a bit about the version information in the package. Is a newer  
build automatically recognized as a newer package? Does the build process  
create this version information?

Honestly I'm just interested in getting an upgradeable tirex to the new  
machine. Learning all this stuff about debian package creation and fix the  
tirex build environment is certainly also an interesting topic but not the  
task I wanted to do now. For someone experienced in debian packaging it is  
certainly just a few minutes to check this and suggest a proper fix to the  
build environment.

Stephan