Packaging exiv2 0.27

[Steve Robbins]

On Sunday, February 3, 2019 9:55:10 AM CST Maximiliano Curia wrote:

> El 2019-02-03 a las 14:35 +0100, Simon Frei escribió:

> > Exiv2 in debian is ancient and (not so) recently the project picked up
> > two new devs and has developed a lot (amongst others the pile of CVS
> > bugs against 0.26 has been addressed). I have tried to package the 0.27
> > release and published the results to
> > https://salsa.debian.org/imsodin-guest/exiv2/tree/debian-0.27

That is excellent news, thanks!

> Personally, after the 0.26 disastrous release, I would prefer if projects
> move away from exiv2.

Is there an alternative to move to?  

My only need is for digikam -- currently Debian patches digikam to use the 
0.25 release even though upstream mandates 0.26.   Having a new exiv2 package 
only seems helpful to me. 

-Steve
P.S.  Not suggesting to rush a new release, with the freeze immanent.