Usage of clutter in fotocx (Was: fotoxx: Insecure use of temporary files)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Michael,

Am Sat, Nov 22, 2025 at 01:00:46PM +0100 schrieb Michael Cornelison:
> Removing clutter would mean a rewrite of the code now using libchamplain. I
> have not decided if I will do this or not. One option is to remove the map
> features in Fotocx (zoomable world map, click on a map marker to show a
> gallery of images geolocated at or near the marker).

That would be a shame since this is some unique feature of fotocx I've
not seen in Free Software so far and actually my motivation to work on
fotocx inside Debian.

> There is a replacement for libchamplain, but a rewrite of code to use this
> is required, and there is no documentation other than reading the code.
> This is all Gnome stuff.

Sounds pretty unfortunate.
 
> I am angry that Linux in general does not care about
> backward-compatibility.  Linux deserves its 2% share of desktops. My 1990s
> Windows NT program still runs on Windows 11. You cannot expect people to
> favor a system where working programs suddenly stop working.

Perfectly understandable.
 
> What is the harm of retaining libclutter in Debian?

I need to admit I've just realised this in connection with the fotoxx
removal.  It was not my decision and I can't comment on this.

Kind regards
    Andreas.

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