[Pkg-phototools-devel] Debian package of trimage taken over into Debian PhotoTools team

[Kilian Valkhof]

Hi Andreas,

Thanks! I am completely out of date with current Debian
methods/procedures so bear with me :)

Since Trimage is specifically for optimising images for the web it will
violently rip out all EXIF metadata, which has tripped up people using
it to optimise their photolibrary in the past (suddently none of their
photos have a rotation, gps location, time taken etc). I'm not sure what
it being under "phototools" means, but that's something to be aware of.

If you are OK with me adding just a tag for 1.0.6 on Github, I can do
that easily. I'd be interested in merging Debian changes upstream as well.

There is work underway for py3 + qt5:
https://github.com/Kilian/Trimage/pull/47 but I'm not actually in a
really good position to judge this other than "works" vs "doesn't work".
I haven't done much python development in the past 8 years since
creating Trimage.

Best,

Kilian

On 23-10-18 11:53, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Kilian,
>
> I'm currently checking depencencies of the Debian Med packages whether
> they are properly moved to the new development platform
> salsa.debian.org.  I stumbled upon trimage which was not yet maintained
> in packaging Git by any packaging team.  So I took the freedom to move
> trimage into Debian PhotoTools team and have set you as Uploader.  I hope
> you like this move.
>
> Since I've noticed that you have some commits in Git which are dealing
> with all open Debian bugs (two solved, one at least partly addressed) I
> decided to package latest HEAD from Github.  It would probably be
> sensible if you tag a new release (which I would prefer over some "random"
> Git commit).
>
> Further things:  It would be sensible to port trimage to Python3 and Qt5
> in the not so distant future.
>
> Kind regards
>
>         Andreas.
>
>