[Pkg-phototools-devel] Bug#542259: hugin: embeds the VIGRA library

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2009-08-19 Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> wrote:
> On 2009-08-18 Jakub Wilk <ubanus at users.sf.net> wrote:
> > Package: hugin
> > Version: 0.7.0-2
> > Severity: normal

> > Hugin embeds a slightly modified version of the VIGRA 1.5 library.  
> [...]
> > I attach diffs between VIGRA 1.5 and the code present in the Hugin  
> > sources. Please note that VIGRA 1.6 has been already released (although  
> > it is not yet in Debian[2]), so some of the missing features might have  
> > been already implemented upstream.

> Hello,
> For reference hugin 0.8 also uses VIGRA 1.5. However there is already
> a patch http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.misc.ptx/14303
> and a plan
> http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3c4A634291.2070307%40levy.ch%3e
> to include it in the next version (2009.08.1).

Status update: hugin upstream is planning to get its patches included
in vigra upstream. 
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.misc.ptx/18566

cu andreas
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