[Pkg-phototools-devel] Bug#682980: darktable / libraw

[David Bremner]

Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm at inutil.org> writes:

> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 08:07:04AM -0400, David Bremner wrote:
>> 
>> Having double checked the Debian version of libraw doesn't support DNG
>> images at more than 16 bits, I'm tagging this bug wontfix and closing
>> it.  If the DNG support in Debian's libraw changes, then the bug can be
>> re-opened.
>
> What's the status 2.5 years later? Is the Debian version of libraw in
> current sid capable enough so that we can switch over?

As predicted, nothing relevant changed in debian libraw. However, there
is actually good news on this front. In the master branch of darktable,
the dependency on libraw has been removed. I don't expect it's feasible
to backport, but we should have a new upstream major release before
stretch. So it might make sense to reopen this bug and tag it
fixed-upstream in order to track this progress.

For reference, here is the last commit removing libraw. There is at
least 11 other commits that look relevant.

commit 1ceb8546cacc0a3178b20b89ef7dd7f5d01b8527
Author: Pedro Côrte-Real <pedro at pedrocr.net>
Date:   Sun Feb 1 09:30:50 2015 +0000

    Remove now unused LibRaw