[Bug 417727] [NEW] Please pin mkgmap at version 0.0.0+svn630-1

[Morten Kjeldgaard]

Public bug reported:

Please pin the mkgmap package at version 0.0.0+svn630-1. The version
currently in Debian (0.0.0+svn1067-1) has a number of problems.

1) The memory requirements the program needs for the java VM has risen
considerably. While I could easily convert the file denmark.osm (fetched
from geofabrik [0]) with mkgmap svn630, that is no longer possible.

2) In practice, mkgmap svn1067 requires you to use the splitter progam
on the .osm file. That program is not packaged for Debian or Ubuntu.

3) I succeeded in converting the file denmark.osm using the splitter
with maxnodes=500K, and subsequently mkgmap svn1067 with 4096M of RAM
for the VM. (I have 6G RAM on my production workstation, otherwise it
would have taken forever.)

These items constitute a significant regression in user friendliness.
While the older version svn630 may not have the bells & whistles of the
newer version svn1067, the increase in system requirements is grotesque
and the older version does work very well for generating usable
gmapsupp.img files for the Garmin GPS devices.

The readers of the mkgmap-dev mailing list helped me resolve these
issues, see the discussion thread [1].


[0] http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/europe/denmark.osm.bz2
[1] http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/pipermail/mkgmap-dev/2009q3/003564.html

** Affects: ubuntu
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: mkgmap (Debian)
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Unknown

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #543226
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543226

** Also affects: mkgmap (Debian) via
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543226
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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Please pin mkgmap at version 0.0.0+svn630-1
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