Packaging exiv2 0.27

Steve Robbins steve at sumost.ca
Sat Aug 17 01:10:45 BST 2019


On Friday, August 16, 2019 6:16:49 PM CDT Simon Frei wrote:

> On 18/07/2019 21:14, Steve Robbins wrote:
> > Simon,
> > 
> > Suggest that you include a fix for upstream bug
> > https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/363
> > 
> > At present, the bug is not fixed despite the issue being marked as closed.
> > 
> > Steve
> 
> I added the proposed patch in
> https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/363#issuecomment-512774682, that
> will explain that there is a known issue with building with DEBUG.

Oh.  What I meant is to fix the code to use <stdint.h> rather than typedef'ing 
things wrongly.   Specifically in XMP_Const.h, remove "#if XMP_MacBuild" or 
replace it with "#if 1" to use the typedefs int8_t, etc.

> Probably not really relevant for debian, as there is a controlled build
> environment. The proper solution would probably be to separately package
> adobe's xmp sdk (libexempi might ship it too).

Also a good idea, but longer-term solution.

-Steve






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