[Bug 234581] Review Request: Mapnik cartography library - first package, need sponsor.

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Summary: Review Request: Mapnik cartography library - first package, need sponsor.


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=234581





------- Additional Comments From mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp  2007-07-06 21:38 EST -------
(In reply to comment #9)
> In response to the question in comment #8 about the use of Mapnik.  Mapnik can
> be used either as a Python or a C++ library.

What is the problem is that is if libmapnik.so *is linked (dynamically)* from
other packages, then having no soversion is a problem because the ABI
of libmapnik.so may change in the future. At that point,
all the applications linking to libmapnik.so silently gets useless.

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