[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#483400: python-mapscript: Cannot import mapscript module into python.

[Hays Barrett]

Package: python-mapscript
Version: 5.0.2-2+b1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

With the transision to AGG in mapserver\mapscript 5.0, the mapscript modlule fails to import in python.

Example:

Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Apr 17 2008, 13:15:05)
[GCC 4.2.3 (Debian 4.2.3-3)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import mapscript
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mapscript.py", line 7, in <module>
    import _mapscript
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_mapscript.so: undefined symbol: _ZN3agg12g_sqrt_tableE
>>>



-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages python-mapscript depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.7-10            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcurl3-gnutls        7.18.1-1          Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libfcgi0ldbl           2.4.0-7           Shared library of FastCGI
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.5-1+b1        FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.0-3         GCC support library
ii  libgd2-xpm             2.0.36~rc1~dfsg-1 GD Graphics Library version 2
ii  libgdal1-1.5.0         1.5.1-3+b1        Geospatial Data Abstraction Librar
ii  libgeos-c1             3.0.0-5           Geometry engine for Geographic Inf
ii  libjpeg62              6b-14             The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.27-1          PNG library - runtime
ii  libpq5                 8.3.1-2+b1        PostgreSQL C client library
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.0-3           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6               2:1.0.3-7         X11 client-side library
ii  libxpm4                1:3.5.7-1         X11 pixmap library
ii  proj                   4.6.0-1           Cartographic projection filter and
ii  python                 2.5.2-1           An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-central         0.6.6             register and build utility for Pyt
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

python-mapscript recommends no packages.

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