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Debian packaging #495

Closed paride closed 6 years ago

paride commented 6 years ago

@jonsneyers This is just to let you know that I'm working on the Debian packaging for FLIF, and I took the ownership of the RFP bug #812761, making it an ITP.

If you are fine with it I can report here any difficulty encountered during the packaging work that could be solved by minor upstream changes.

jonsneyers commented 6 years ago

Nice! Thanks!

paride commented 6 years ago

@jonsneyers flif is now in the Debian queue for new packages.

I had to patch src/Makefile in order to build the package with all the build flags I wanted. I submitted a PR for this: #497.

Another minor issue is that viewflif doesn't have a manpage. Do you plan to write one at some point?

If you are not using the debian/ directory, I suggest dropping it. It creates a bit of confusion. See:

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq#What.27s_wrong_with_upstream_shipping_a_debian.2F_directory.3F

jonsneyers commented 6 years ago

Cool!

In my opinion, viewflif is not really suitable for distribution - it is just a small, unpolished demo application to show how libflif can be used to progressively load an image or animation, but I think it has some issues (I think it segfaults or has race conditions in some cases).

Sorry about the confusion created by the debian/ directory. I will remove it.

paride commented 6 years ago

Thanks for merging the Makefile patch. About viewflif, we are now distributing it in Debian (it's not available yet, but the package has just been accepted). If you really think it should not let me know and I'll pull it. It is packages separately from the flif-tools and from the library.

paride commented 6 years ago

FLIF is now in Debian. An outstanding issue remains open: #498.