[Pkg-phototools-devel] Bug#682980: Bug#682980: darktable: should use system shared libraw

[David Bremner]

Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> writes:

> Apparently (judging from latest upstream release changelog) darktable
> uses libraw, but does not link against the system shared library as
> documented at a "should" in Debian Policy §4.13.

Hi Jonas;

It's a good point, but as usual there are a few problems to be overcome.

1) the embedded copy currently leads the version in Debian by one
   upstream release. I filed a wishlist bug 682982 asking for an upgrade
   before I learned the following 

2) The version in darktable is actually patched, in some way that seems
   incompatible with upstream.  I don't know the details of this yet,
   but I'm not too hopeful after chatting with upstream.

d