Packaging exiv2 0.27

Jonathan Riddell jr at jriddell.org
Fri Feb 8 13:19:46 GMT 2019


On Sun, Feb 03, 2019 at 02:35:59PM +0100, Simon Frei wrote:
> I am new to debian packaging - I had some contact with Steve M. Robbins
> regarding building digikam and doing some bug triaging, that's about it.
> 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
> I am aware this is probably the worst moment in the debian release
> cycle, but if anyone wants to give me feedback regardless that would be
> nice. Otherwise this email hopefully serves as a notification to the
> relevant maintainers such that they may profit from it once the new
> testing cycle starts.

We updated this to 0.26 in neon.  It's used by krita and a bunch of other apps.  It would be great to get it back in sync with Debian.

https://packaging.neon.kde.org/extras/exiv2.git/

Jonathan



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