[Pkg-phototools-devel] Add exiv2 to Photo Tools list?

[Alan Pater]

On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Herbert Fortes <hpfn at ig.com.br> wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> I recently stumbled on the Debian Photo Tools list:
>> http://blends.debian.org/multimedia/tasks/photography
>>
>> I am curious as to why the exiv2 image metadata library and cli is not
>> on this list? it is used for metadata management by most photography
>> gui apps and is in desperate need of an active maintainer.
>>
>
> The package has a maintainer[0] (team) and is up to date.
> Last version 2015.
>
> [0] - https://packages.qa.debian.org/e/exiv2.html
>
>
> What is wrong ?

True, but bug reports and patches go unanswered and unresolved.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=exiv2

Apart from that, it just seems a better fit in Photo Tools. Right now
it is in KDE, but the library is used by shotwell, the gimp,
darktable, and many more non-kde apps.