Various patches from the geos Debian package

[Bas Couwenberg]

The attached patches are still included in the geos Debian package for 3.5.0, these were included in the Debian package since 3.4.2 (and some possibly earlier).

Patch descriptions:

• 01-geos-config.patch

Fix linking to libgeos-@VERSION@ in geos-config

• 02-ruby2.patch

Update include and libraries paths for Ruby 2.x. Fix linking with libruby.

• 03-disable-docygen-html-timestamp.patch

Disable HTML timestamps in Doxygen to allow reproducible builds (​1, ​2).

[strk]

Ticket retargeted after milestone closed

[Bas Couwenberg]

Please consider applying the patches before the 3.7.0 release.

The geos-config patch needs additional changes for #887

[Bas Couwenberg]

Updated for #887 (Library filename without pre-release suffix)

[strk]

I think libtool should take care of adding a symlink from libgeos.so to libgeos-<version>.so, is this not the case on your system ?

[Bas Couwenberg]

The symlink is present:

$ dpkg-deb -c ../libgeos++-dev_3.7.0~alpha-1~exp1_amd64.deb | grep usr/lib | grep libgeos
-rw-r--r-- root/root   5366122 2018-06-14 09:17 ./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgeos.a
lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2018-06-14 09:17 ./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgeos.so -> libgeos-3.7.0.so

So the geos-config patch could be dropped, although I also prefer explicitly including the versioned library name as that matches the SONAME. Note that Francesco Paolo Lovergine originally developed that patch which also included adding the {{clibs}} option, see:

​https://salsa.debian.org/debian-gis-team/geos/commit/216878271f27a5662920f7f23e710da46957f4a3

[cvvergara <vicky@…>]

In 5ac4db2/git:

Applying patches for Closes #742

• 01-geos-config.patch
  • Description: Fix library paths.
  • Author: Francesco Paolo Lovergine <frankie@…>
• 02-ruby2.patch
  • Description: Update include and libraries paths for Ruby 2.x.
  • Fix linking with libruby.
  • Author: Bas Couwenberg <sebastic@…>
• 03-disable-docygen-html-timestamp.patch
  • Description: Disable HTML timestamps in Doxygen to allow reproducible builds.
  • ​https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/
  • Author: Bas Couwenberg <sebastic@…>

[Bas Couwenberg]

The old geos-config patch was applied, please apply the updated patch which uses @VERSION_RELEASE@ (without pre-release suffix).

[Regina Obe <lr@…>]

In 96c9e65/git:

Apply updated geos-config patch. Closes #742