LibGeos for Ubuntu 22.04 breaks code / improperly configured?

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 08:25:18AM +0100, Basile Czajkowski wrote:
> Hello,

> I am writing to You with a question about libgeos package available for
> Ubuntu 22.04.

> Currently apt install provides system with version 3.10.2 of libgeos.

> However this breaks code that worked previously with libgeos 3.8.0

> As described in this issue :
> https://github.com/libgeos/geos/issues/760

> It seems that building libgeos from source solves the issue even though
> source for required classes has not changed. Given the extensive
> configuration of package could it be possible that available package in
> Ubuntu repository would break code?

This is <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/geos/+bug/1980147>.

> If so, when would the updated version of libgeos (3.11.1) appear in Ubuntu
> repository?

That version is already present in lunar which will be released as Ubuntu
23.04.

It will not be included in Ubuntu 22.04 (but nothing about that bug requires
an update to 3.11.1).

Fixing this bug requires someone to do the work of preparing a Stable
Release Update

   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

This is a package in universe that is in sync from Debian.  It is unlikely
that this issue will end up being prioritized by an Ubuntu developer for
upload.

If you are using libgeos in a project of your own outside of Ubuntu, given
this bug I would suggest you take it from upstream rather than depending on
the system version of the library, which is present largely for supporting
other application software (and language bindings) that Ubuntu ships.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                   https://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 833 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/attachments/20221209/3799657d/attachment.sig>