[Pkg-phototools-devel] [RFC] Packaging notes for hugin

[Sebastian Harl]

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 01:21:57AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> On 27/01/2008, Bruno Postle wrote:

> Answering to Sebastian, I guess I'll stick to:
>   hugin: contains the 3 GUI stuff, depends strictly on hugin-tools.
>   hugin-tools: contains the CLI stuff.
> 
> -tools sounds better for the CLI stuff, I don't know what one would
> expect in a -bin package in the GUI vs CLI case. :)

Sounds good to me. Not having to install Gtk and all that stuff is imho a very
good thing.

> About -data, we have ???Installed-Size: 3440???, so keeping a separate -data
> makes sense (answering to Bernd).

Ack.

> > I've also make hugin-base depend on perl(Image::ExifTool), make and
> > enblend, as this batch stitching process requires these.
> 
> Thanks. We already had a Suggests: on enblend, and it is currently being
> reviewed (and possibly accepted), so I'll bump this to a Recommends:
> (stronger dependency) or even to a Depends: (absolute dependency). Since
> you're saying ???require???, that'll probably be a Depends.

No, enblend is a recommendation. One can perfectly use hugin without enblend
(at least in versions << 0.7 - I haven't looked at 0.7 yet, but I cannot image
it's a strict dependency by now) but, in all but uncommon cases, both tools
will be used together - which is exactly the definition of "Recommends:".

> > Otherwise it is a straightforward package, the only other odd thing
> > that is going on is that hugin makes use of autopano-sift which is US
> > patent encumbered - I can't add this to fedora and presumably the
> > debian situation is the same.
> 
> Yep, no serious troubles with it until now. And indeed, the Debian
> situation is the very same. I guess you're keeping the libpano
> limitation as well for the same reason.

Side note: I was going to try to get autopano-sift into Debian-Unofficial. I
will talk about that with Daniel (panthera - the D-U maintainer) in the near
future.

Cheers,
Sebastian

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