[Xastir] [OZAPRS] XASTIR - maps

[Tony Hunt]

Curt or Someone

Can someone respond to Hamish regards the debian packages for xastir 
including the Ubuntu ones. Hamish is the maintainer for the debian packages 
of xastir. He is unaware of the issues with these packages of recent times 
with Image magic and the Maps.
I realise the problems are not specific to his package but to do with the 
way the switches and compiling of GM/IM in Debian that are the cause. There 
was some talk of including a check in the source code for these compile 
options. Perhaps a fix can be included into the Deb packages so that things 
like apt-get and Synaptic actually produce a running and useful xastir 
installation for those who follow that line of installation.

Then we will stop getting posts on here asking why the Maps are just black 
boxes and then spending time in HowTos and Wikis and work arounds. Hamish 
seems to prefer a bug report or in debians bug tracker. See below.

Can someone take this up as I will fast get out of my depth on this one.

Tony  Hunt VK5AH  wavetel at internode.on.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hamish Moffatt" <hamish at cloud.net.au>
To: "Tony Hunt" <wavetel at internode.on.net>
Cc: <ozaprs at aprs.net.au>
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 9:24 PM
Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] XASTIR - maps


> Hi Tony,
>
> I'm not actively using XASTIR nor following the mailing lists. Nobody
> has reported these problems to Debian's bug tracker (see
> http://bugs.debian.org/xastir ), nor via Ubuntu's for that matter (
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xastir ), so I'm unaware.
>
> I don't remember seeing any recent bug reports about libax25 either.
>
> Please everyone, report stuff if you want it fixed!
>
> Hamish
>
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 09:06:17PM +1030, Tony Hunt wrote:
>> Hamish..
>>
>> I am not sure if we are talking about AX25 libraries or Xastir packages 
>> now.
>>
>> The issues Scott refered to with Image magic and Graphics magic are
>> well known with Xastir. All the recent debian packages for the
>> buntus and Lenny all fail with Raster maps and have issues. I would
>> have thought you were across this as you end up often with just a
>> black box instead of a raster map depending on the file type (gif or
>> jpg). There are various wikis and workarounds involving uninstalling
>> IM and GM packages and then compiling your own and even recompiling
>> xastir. Currently Debian is in a bit of a mess with these issues and
>> xastir.
>> The number of posts on the xastir mailing list for this just keeps
>> mounting. It re-emerges periodically.
>> A easy way to get xastir going in xastir is to install LSB and run
>> the xastir LSB package for xastir but thats currently at v1.93.
>>
>> Have a chat with Curt. There was talk about some mods in the source
>> code to check how IM was compiled (switches) as a work around.
>> Maybee you can do a work around . Currently its a real pain getting
>> xastir going properly with just about any debian system. Not an easy
>> apt-get install xastir anymore.
>>
>>
>>
>> Tony  Hunt VK5AH  wavetel at internode.on.net
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>
>> >Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:27:16 +1100
>> >From: Hamish Moffatt <hamish at cloud.net.au>
>> >Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] XASTIR - maps
>> >To: ozaprs at aprs.net.au
>> >Message-ID: <20091123222715.GC2193 at cloud.net.au>
>> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>> >
>> >On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:34:52PM +1100, Andrew Gilbett wrote:
>> >>Thanks Everyone for your input XASTIR is working well now. I compiled
>> >>it from source and that seems to have solved all the problems. I also
>> >>took your advice ray and compiled and installed the AX25 libraries
>> >>from Bernard F6BVP. It appears to be working well using the internet
>> >>stream. Time to tackle RF very soon.
>> >
>> >What's wrong with the packaged version anyway?
>> >
>> >I built the package and haven't had any feedback about problems with it.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >Hamish
>>
>