Bug#1082559: libimage-exiftool-perl: please update to latest upstream version

[Filippo Giunchedi]

On Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 12:39:26AM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Sep 2024 11:57:32 +0200, Filippo Giunchedi wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to request a newer upstream version of libimage-exiftool-perl to be
> > packaged, e.g. 12.96 from Sept 1st
> 
> Thanks for reaching out.
> 
> The question you are raising is interesting, as Exiftool is a bit
> untypical, as it has two types of releases and two release locations:
> 
> - There are "production" and other ("development"?) releases.
> - https://exiftool.org/ has both, https://metacpan.org/release/Image-ExifTool
>   only has production releases.

Thank you Gregor and Phil for the explanation, very useful! I missed the
difference in releases.

> We have been packaging the development releases from
> https://exiftool.org/ for some time; unfortunately the timeline
> doesn't always align with the Debian release dates; which lead to
> #1041852 (summary: a stable Debian release should ship a "production
> release" of Exiftool).
> 
> Now other people, like you in this bug report, legitimately say
> "Can't we have all new releases (aka also development releases) of
> Exiftool?", and I understand the position (as we've packaged them for
> a couple of years).
> 
> In the end, we can't satisfy both expectations (or: we can't close
> both #1041852 and #1082559, as they contradict each other).
> Currently I think packaging (only) production releases is okay, as we
> also do this for other distributions on the CPAN.

Packaging the production release only makes sense to me.

Thank you again,
Filippo