[Pkg-phototools-devel] Hugin 0.7.0 waiting for testing!

[Andreas Metzler]

Cyril Brulebois <kibi at debian.org> wrote:
> Hey folks!

> *FINALLY!* pushed an ???experimental??? branch to hugin.git. Runtime totally
> untested, but at least source-wise, should be pretty much OK. Feedback
> welcome!

> Oh, amd64 binaries are temporary available through:
> | lftp -c 'mget http://alioth.debian.org/~kibi/tmp/hugin*.deb'

> Ubuntu folks have autopano tweaks, but since I'm not going to test
> autopano*, I'm not going to vouch for those changes. Nice to see how
> they (didn't) get forwarded anyway.
[...]

Hello,

it basically works for me, but the autopano patch is broken.

with the patch File->Preferences->Autopan looks like this:
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Select Autopane: [autopano-sift]
Autopano-Sift
Autopano-Sift: [autopano]
Arguments: [--maxmatches %p %o %i]
[...]
---------------------------------------

This does not work. The arguments "--maxmatches %p %o %i" do not work
with the autopano executables in either autopano-sift or
autopano-sift-c.

Without the patch File->Preferences->Autopan looks like this:
---------------------------------------
Select Autopane: [autopano-sift]
Autopano-Sift
Autopano-Sift: [autopano-sift-c]
Arguments: [--maxmatches %p %o %i]
[...]
---------------------------------------

which does work with the autopano-sift-c executable in
autopano-sift-c. So please drop 50_more_generic_autopano_binary, it
breaks stuff instead of fixing. The autopano executables need
different commandlines. (No idea which, sorry.)

FWIW I see that with the original ubuntu patch I would end up with hugin
trying to execute "autopano-sift" which is also broken. Neither
autopano-sift nor autopano-sift-c contain a executable with that name.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/all/autopano-sift/filelist

After reading
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hugin/+bug/162575 it looks
like the correct way to invoke autopano-sift is 
autopano-complete --points %p -o %o %i

*However* this would not solve the problem, autopano-sift-c does not
contains a executable named autopano-complete.

Since Debian does not contain either autopano-sift-c or autopano-sift
and unpatched upstream works with autopano-sift-c I suggest to simply
stay with upstream. Ubuntu is in a different boat, they ship
autopano-sift but not -c. (I guess just for historic reasons. -c, is
faster for me and does not depend on mono runtime.)

Reagrding #405862, I claim that it is not even present in
0.7.0~svn3191+beta5-2. - Without old broken ~/.hugin hugin will
correctly execute autopano-sift-c. [Load Defaults] on old broken
configuration will fix stuff.

cu andreas
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