[Xastir] Unable to open GeoTiff.

[Tom Russo]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 07:43:34PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 08:21:22PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <lee.bengston at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Yes, the Ubuntu wiki instructions give working GeoTIFF, as well as properly
> > > built proj.4 libraries (because the official debian and ubuntu repositories
> > > continue to provide a broken one).
> > >
> > > Is the proj.4 package still broken?  
[SNIP]
> >  This one appears to be correct, and it was
> > installed directly from the Ubuntu repositories.  Also, fyi, I got the same
> > results in Ubuntu 10.04 using the standard Ubuntu proj package.
> 
> I stand corrected.  It had remained broken for so many releases that I simply
> concluded that nobody was maintaining it.

FWIW, the bug I opened in Launchpad for this issue remains in CONFIRMED, 
UNASSIGNED status, and of "UNDECIDED" importance.  That was another reason I'd
assumed it hadn't been fixed.

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