[Pkg-kde-extras] DISCUSS: split digikam into digikam and showfoto

[Mark Purcell]

  * Merging Kubuntu change: split digikam into digikam and showfoto
    packages. Thx to Anthony Mercatante <tonio at ubuntu.com>

Anthony, Achim,

I'm not sure I'm confortable with splitting digikam into digikam and showfoto.

Whilst, showfoto is a useful application viewer in its own right and could stand alone as a image viewer, arn't we just making more package bloat by splitting it off into its own package. What are the advantages we are trying to archive?

I don't think upstream are about to split showfoto off into a separate tarball and development path.

Also if it does split then digikam needs to Depend on it and things like the showfoto manpage also need to go across which haven't been brought across in svn.debian.

I can only see very limited cases where a user is going to have showfoto installed and not want digikam, I don't think this justifies the split.

Also are we sure there are no dependencies between the two?

Ie, is libdigikam needed, or any of the kio_digikam* needed by showfoto?

In fact in svn.debian showfoto is shown as Depends on digikam, so if the two are always installed together, then why split them?

If we want to bring attention to the fact that showfoto is different and available, then why not include an additional paragraph in the description of digikam?

Mark

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