On 2021-01-24 14:59:03, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > Hi, > > It seems like rapid-photo-downloader will not make it into the next > Debian stable release (bullseye). It depends on "rawkit" (which I happen > to maintain for some reason), and *that* package fails with newer libraw > versions: > > https://bugs.debian.org/978079 > > I'm not sure how to fix this, and I don't have the cycles to do so right > now. But since you're the RPD maintainer, I figured you might have extra > motivation to fix this... Otherwise I'm afraid we won't be able to ship > RPD with Debian starting with bullseye, which would really be a shame... > > It might be worth bringing this up with upstream as well, if you can > find the time...
Actually, I just found out that there's an active fork which fixes those problems, called rawpy: https://discuss.pixls.us/t/rawkit-unmaintained-path-forward-for-rapid-photo-downloader/14299 There's a patch in Arch to port rawkit to libraw19, but I feel it would be ill-advised to carry such a hack through a stable Debian release. So I think the way forward for RPD is to package rawpy, remove rawkit, and have RPD depend on rawpy. I don't have time to do this work myself and, since RPD is the only thing that needs rawkit in Debian, I would suggest you take on the dependency as well. Unfortunately, this would need to happen in the coming week, otherwise we'll miss the NEW window before the soft freeze (2021-02-12). Do you have time to deal with this until then? Thanks, a. -- The flesh you so fancifully fry Is not succulent, tasty or kind It's death for no reason And death for no reason is murder - Morrissey
