[Pkg-phototools-devel] Bug#1001582: hugin: please drop dependency on enblend/enfuse

[Heinz Repp]

Package: hugin
Version: 2021.0~beta1+dfsg-1
Severity: important




-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (150, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages hugin depends on:
ii  enblend                 4.2-8
ii  enfuse                  4.2-8
ii  hugin-tools             2021.0~beta1+dfsg-1
ii  libc6                   2.32-5
ii  libexiv2-27             0.27.3-3.1
ii  libfftw3-double3        3.3.8-2
ii  libgcc-s1               11.2.0-12
ii  libglew2.2              2.2.0-4
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]  9.0.1-1
ii  libglx0                 1.3.4-2+b1
ii  libgomp1                11.2.0-12
ii  libimage-exiftool-perl  12.36+dfsg-1
ii  liblcms2-2              2.12~rc1-2
ii  libopengl0              1.3.4-2+b1
ii  libpano13-3             2.9.20~rc3+dfsg-1
ii  libsqlite3-0            3.36.0-2
ii  libstdc++6              11.2.0-12
ii  libtiff5                4.3.0-2
ii  libvigraimpex11         1.11.1+dfsg-8
ii  libwxbase3.0-0v5        3.0.5.1+dfsg-2+b1
ii  libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-0v5    3.0.5.1+dfsg-2+b1
ii  make                    4.3-4.1

hugin recommends no packages.

Versions of packages hugin suggests:
ii  darktable    3.6.1-1
ii  dcraw        9.28-3
ii  rawtherapee  5.8-3

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libgsl27 is the successor to libgsl25, but updating it breaks enblend/enfuse. A newer build of enblend/enfuse is not possible due to libvigraimpex dependency, which does not build with GCC 11, thus is dropped from testing.
Vigra seems to be dead upstream, the main mail address does not exist any more, and issues are not answered.
enblend/enfuse seems to be dead upstream also, last patches 2016, main email address not existing any more

Hugin can be switched to internal sticher, no need for enblend. But Hugin depends on enblend, so updating libgsl to 2.7 removes enblend, enfuse and Hugin.

To keep Hugin it would suffice to drop the enblend/enfuse dependency.