geos (3.3.1-1) unstable; urgency=low GEOS provides a (stable) C API and an unstable C++ one. Most programs use the stable interface. See http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/wiki/Applications for details. Starting from this version we are trying to short the list of reverse build-deps that require erroneously linking both C/C++ and binary NMUs frequency. A program which depends on the C++ API has to b-depend on the libgeos++-dev which in turn depends on the right libgeos-VERSION lib. All other programs have to b-depend on the C libgeos-dev package, which depends strictly on the C stable interface (currently libgeos1). Note that geos-config has some problems on those regards, so current version also provides the C lib only for --clibs, with the same approach adopted by upstream. See http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/ticket/497 about that. -- Francesco Paolo Lovergine Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:27:23 +0100