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

[Sebastian Harl]

Hi,

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 03:18:19PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Upstream asks whether releasing enblend 3.1 ???soon??? might help. I'm not
> sure we want to push a mostly untested enblend version so that we can
> keep an hugin snapshot that even upstream people aren't releasing yet
> (it's been now several couples of months since it's being postponed).

This really does not sound like a good idea. It's still a couple of
months until the release, so we would have some more time for testing
but I'd still prefer to have fairly well tested versions in Lenny and
wait for things to stabilize on the upstream side.

> 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. Sebastian, maybe
> you are familiar with those questions?

It's perfectly fine to have any package in backports.org given that the
version is available in testing and there's a user base for the package.

(NB: enblend is already available in etch-backports.)

Anyway, why would you want to keep hugin 0.6.x out of Lenny? Did I miss
any important bug? It does work after all and I was using it quite a few
times lately without any really important issues. Imho, it would be a
pity to not have it in Lenny.

Anyway, I agree that making enblend 3.1 + hugin 0.7 available thru
backports.org when they are tested and stable sounds like a good
solution for this.

Cheers,
Sebastian

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