[Pkg-phototools-devel] Why Hugin probably won't be in lenny :(

[Andreas Metzler]

Cyril Brulebois <kibi at debian.org> wrote:
[...]
> we won't be able to have a satisfactory hugin in time for
> lenny, since it depends on more features[2] from latest enblend
> snapshots, not only the compression.
[...]
> I've been thinking about that since yesterday and the only way I could
> think of is keeping hugin out of stable, and keep enblend as it is.

Hello,
You mean shippiping enblend 3.0 in lenny I assume.

[...]
> I've been thinking about that since yesterday and the only way I could
> think of is keeping hugin out of stable, and keep enblend as it is.
> Eventually try and see whether enblend and hugin (I know that its not
> being in stable might forbid this, but I guess it might be negotiated
> somehow) can live in backports.org for stable users.
[...]

Afaik Backports.org allows /addition/ of packages not available in
stable, the guideline is just the backported *version* should have
propagated to testing.

> I really don't believe keeping a buggy-because-requiring-unavailable...
> ...-features hugin in testing would help users, nor keeping the extra old
> hugin, nor rushing a new enblend (and anyway, the timing is so hot that
> I doubt it'd be feasible at all).

> Someone with magick skills, maybe? I for one only see the keep-out
> option. :(

The only *weak* straw I can think of is uploading a svn-snapshot of
enblend 3.1 to unstable soonish, but keeping it out of testing manually
until it has seen enough testing that you might consider both the then
uploaded hugin and enblend snapshots ready for stable. Perhaps it might be
possible to get a release exception and get the packages into lenny
lately. (There is also the possibilty of a delayed release.) This has
the upside of having a working hugin+enblend combo in sid. It is
pretty weak straw, though.
cu andreas
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