[Pkg-phototools-devel] Bug#553359: Upstream packaging

[Bernd Zeimetz]

On 07/25/2010 01:49 AM, Pascal de Bruijn wrote:
>>> I'm not sure I understand... I think we have a full copy of LibRaw in
>>> a source tree, so this shouldn't be a problem?
>>
>> No, you don't.
>> The libraw distribution contains files like
>> - COPYRIGHT
>> - LICENSE.*
>> which describes the licenses and copyright for files which do not have this
>> information embedded (ahd_interpolate_mod.c/ahd_partial_interpolate.c comes to
>> my mind).
> 
> Hmm my bad... We'll try to look into this before 0.6 release...

Good! You might want to ensure that your copyright is added to the files you've
modified... your choice, though :)


>> Then we have files like internal/dcraw_fileio.cpp which were generated
>> automatically from dcraw.c. There should be a described way to recreate them
>> (actually, that is even missing in the libraw package, which is bad).
> 
> Yeah, well we can't do anything about that, since that's an upstream
> issue. Well except whining about it :)

I'll poke the libraw debian maintainer to make him poke upstream ;)

> BTW, you mentioned you were experiencing some crashes... Have you
> tried latest git? Our lead developer (johannes) has been fixing all
> kinds of memory leaks and and segfaults last week, so it should be
> reasonably stable about now.
> 
> If you're still experiencing crashes, we'd be delighted to receive a
> gdb backtrace, so we can fix it before 0.6 release.

I'll have a look, but I won't have the time to do so before next weekend.


Thanks and cheers,

Bernd
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