[Xastir] Heads up for Ubuntu 8.04 users of libproj

[Tom Russo]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 08:24:49PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <lee.bengston at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> On 4/23/09, Lee Bengston <lee.bengston at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> If someone out there is using 8.10, could you check whether the proj
> >> package
> >> there has the same error?  I have chosen to stick with 8.04 for its full
> >> 3 year support term and not upgrade to a completely new version every 6
> >> months.
> >
> > I didn't have Ubuntu 8.10 handy, but on Mepis 8.0, which is Debian
> > Lenny based, the problem is there:
> >
> >   # cs2cs +proj=latlong +datum=NAD83 +to +proj=latlong +datum=NAD27
> >   106d38'17.94"W 35d15'40.14"N
> >   106d38'17.94"W  35d15'40.14"N -0.000
> >
> > So, I expect that Debian 5.0 and most if not all of its relatives have
> > the same problem.  That said, I noticed a while back that Mepis 8.0
> > grabs Berkeley libdb version 4.6 via Synaptic, which is the same as
> > Ubuntu 8.04.  Meanwhile Ubuntu 8.10 grabs version 4.7, so perhaps it
> > has a newer proj version in its repositories as well.
> 
> Now that I am home - same issue on Xubuntu 8.10
> 
> $ cs2cs +proj=latlong +datum=NAD83 +to +proj=latlong +datum=NAD27
> 106d38'17.94"W 35d15'40.14"N
> 106d38'17.94"W	35d15'40.14"N -0.000

Sigh.  That probably means that a bug report should be filed.  Fixing this
is trivial for the package maintainer --- it involves downloading one extra
tar file and unpacking it inside the source tree.

Where does one do that for Ubuntu/Debian packages?

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