[Pkg-phototools-devel] Hugin + Debian - touching base

[Sebastian Harl]

Hi Yuv,

On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 08:34:08PM -0400, Yuval Levy wrote:
> Andreas Metzler suggested [0] that you can be contacted here and I would  
> like to touch base with you, the Debian Hugin team.

Imho, it's very nice to see upstream developers approaching Debian (or
distributions in general). It's good to know that there seems to be
interest in working together closely :-)

> I am active within the Hugin project. Since I got us accepted into  
> Google's Summer of Code we have an increased pace of development and I  
> am currently overhauling our release process. I am also active within  
> the Enblend project, also currently going through major changes - in  
> code and in the organization. And to a lesser extent I am also active in  
> the Panotools project.

I'm not into hugin package but I'm the maintainer of the Debian enblend
package.

> A Ubuntu contributor recently made me aware of [1] - is this the  
> repository on which you guys work?

Yep.

> I would like to get to know you; to know the status quo of Hugin and  
> related tool in your distribution and your plans for the future.

Hrm, not sure what exactly you want to know (about enblend). As of now,
the latest release (3.2) is available in testing and unstable (Lenny
ships 3.0, while 3.2 is available through backports.org). The package
seems to be used quite a bit, while the number of reported users seems
to be rising fast (see [popcon]).

Currently, the only outstanding issue that has been reported is the
embedded version of libvigraimpex. It would be nice to be able to use
the packaged, unmodified version at some point in the future (see
[bts542258] for details).

Besides that, I don't really have any special plans for the future
besides getting the latest versions into Debian when they are available
;-)

[popcon] http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=enblend-enfuse
[bts542258] http://bugs.debian.org/542258

> If you guys agree, I'd like to develop mutual understanding and a list  
> of things that we can do for you and you can do for us, so that together  
> we can bring the best possible Hugin experience to Debian and (by  
> extension) to Ubuntu users.

That would be very appreciated.

> Looking forward to develop a good and productive working relationship.

Same here :-)

Cheers,
Sebastian

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