[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#832578: cpl-plugin-visir: does not work with packaged swarp

[Ole Streicher]

Hi Julian,

you are right; it is probably the best to include the patched swarp in
the package as long as the packaged version does not do the job jere.

Although I know that SWarp's upstream is not very responsive: could you
please document the bugs you found with Swarp somewhere publicely,
together with the fixes you use? The same for your feature extensions.
It is quite hard to extract them by comparing the sources in
cpl-plugin-visir with the original sources. And having an undocumented
hidden fork in some software (be it packaged for Debian or not) is IMO
quite ugly.

At least the bug fixes may be worth to be applied to the SWarp Debian
package so that others could benefit here as well.

Best regards

Ole