Package: qiv
Severity: wishlist

On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 23:46 +0200, Andy Spiegl wrote:
> Hi Bart,
> 
> I am one of the co-authors of the image viewer qiv.
> I didn't have time to work on it for a long time but finally I got
> around to catch up a little.  I tried to include all the debian
> patches and many more that have piled up in the meantime.

Thanks for this announcement.

> Please see the file Changelog (renamed from README.NEWS)

I will read that.

> 
> I did NOT add the patch "no_background_opts" because I can't reproduce
> the reported bug and thought it would be a pitty to cut those features.
> Please let me know if the problem still exists.

I agree with you that cutting out features is not the best way to fix
bugs.

> 
> I also included the subdir debian upstream so that it's easily possible
> to compile a debian package.  

I prefer that the debian/ subdir is not in the upstream tarball, but it
is not a problem for me.

> I just didn't know how to deal with different
> versions of the control file for different distributions (sarge, etch,
> sid).  I made symbolic links and will leave the rest up to you expert. :-)

That too is not a problem for me.

> As an example I'll attach three different DEBs compiled on three different
> machines: sarge, sid, Ubuntu 6.10

I must rebuild the .deb before uploading.

> 
> I'll also attach the source tarfile because I don't know when Adam will
> upload it to his website. (I sent it to him tonight)

I will use the tarfile from the website.

> 
> Please always CC me when writing to Adam Kopacz about qiv.
> He still is the main author but has even less time than I do. *sigh*

Probably still more time than I have. :)

Regards,

Bart Martens




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