Bug#707334: ITA: sampleicc -- ICC profiles i/o and manipulating library and CMM

[Rene Engelhard]

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 02:45:57PM -0700, Anthony Fok wrote:
> I intend to adopt Rene Engelhard's excellent sampleicc package.

I think this is more like a ITP, since sampleicc already isn't present
in stable (let alone testing nor unstable) because it was actually removed
long ago.

See https://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sampleicc.html.

> So, if no one objects, I would like to bring this package back into
> Debian's fold.  :-)

But yeah, you can do that when you want/need it :-)

Regards,

Rene

Bug#707334: ITA: sampleicc -- ICC profiles i/o and manipulating library and CMM

[Anthony Fok]

Package: wnpp
Followup-For: Bug #707334
Owner: Anthony Fok 

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Hello,

I intend to adopt Rene Engelhard's excellent sampleicc package.

Motivations:

 1. To scratch my own itch: I was looking for some tools to try to
make sense of an ICM colour profile that came with my printer.

 2. The name "SampleICC" came up in my (limited) Google search
earlier than Argyll or Little CMS 2.

 3. By the time I realized Argyll has /usr/bin/iccdump and friends,
I have almost finished refreshing sampleicc's Debian packaging for
upload.  ;-)

 4. SampleICC is still included and kept up-to-date (at 1.6.8, the
latest official .tar.gz) in other major Linux distributions like
Arch Linux[1] and openSUSE[2], etc.

 [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sampleicc/
 [2] http://software.opensuse.org/package/SampleICC

 5. SampleICC is still actively maintained upstream.  1.6.8 was released
in April 2014, whereas 1.6.9 (.zip only, no .tar.gz yet[3]) was released
in September 2015.

 [3] Note-to-self: Bug the upstream for a tarball?  :-)

These motivations led me to believe that SampleICC has merits in its own
rights even though we no longer need it for OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice.

Besides, with Rene's excellent original packaging in place, upgrading
from 1.6.4-1 to 1.6.8-1 (with debhelper 8 to 9 transition etc.) was a
breeze.  It would be such a shame to see Rene's fine work go to waste.

So, if no one objects, I would like to bring this package back into
Debian's fold.  :-)

Cheers,

Anthony

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