Bug#982502: game-data-packager: Build-Depends on xcftools wich should not be released with bullseye

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Hi Simon

You are fast! :)

On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 12:38:22AM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 at 22:47:35 +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > game-data-packager uild-Depends on xcftools which ideally should not
> > be released with bullseye. As it looks xcftools is used for calling
> > xcf2png. In the makefile there is already even the casing to fall back
> > to convert from imagemagick if xcf2png is not present. So could you
> > please investigate if it is possible to switch away from xcftools for
> > this conversions.
> 
> The version converted with imagemagick looks pretty horrible, particularly
> for Team Arena (I suspect it's getting layer modes wrong), so I'd really
> prefer not to rely on that. I think we have to either continue to use
> xcftools, or include pregenerated PNG versions in the source package
> and re-export them with gimp if they ever get modified.

Although we are late in the release process admitelly, from our
persective it would be desirabel to get xcftools removed with
bullseye. So if you think your later option might be okay enough then
I would have suggested to go this way instead. Is this okayish to just
include the pregenerated PNG versions then?

As I want to mention explcitly: if it turns out to be infeasible at
this point we simply will be biting the bullet, but this was the
reason the severity is initially RC and acked by release team twith
the clear indication that we can revisit it it turns out to not be
possible.

Thank you Simon for all your involvement!

Salvatore