On 2021-01-24 20:18:27, Damon Lynch wrote:
>> Otherwise I'm afraid we won't be able to ship
>> RPD with Debian starting with bullseye, which would really be a shame...
>
> I am the developer of Rapid Photo Downloader. I am not impressed by this
> suggestion. Rapid Photo Downloader has an optional, soft dependency on
> rawkit. Rapid Photo Downloader will install and run perfectly well without
> rawkit, which has been the case for some years now.
>
> If you have any packaging questions about Rapid Photo Downloader you can
> ask me, instead of
> simply removing the package from Debian. To be as polite as possible, I am
> somewhat taken aback by a suggestion to remove it without any communication
> with me.
I was merely stating the current situation, which is that there is
currently a hard dependency between RPD and rawkit right now, and rawkit
will be removed. This means that RPD, without change, will also be
removed.
I was not suggesting that RPD *must* be removed from Debian. I use it
regularly, and I would hate to see it go...
> FWIW, the latest version of Rapid Photo Downloader is 0.9.26. The Debian
> package is somewhat out of date these days.
... and in fact, I would love if the package was more up to date to. :)
But this is the hand we're given right now.
I'm glad to hear that the rawkit dependency is not as "hard" as I first
understood it. Maybe then there is an easy fix to keep RPD in Debian if
rawkit disappears.
But I figured I would share my concerns rather than stay silent, because
otherwise this would have all happened automatically and you probably
would have noticed too late.
I'm sorry if it sounded a bit cavalier, I wasn't expecting you to read
this thread directly, and I did suggest the maintainer contact you
directly as well.
I unfortunately do not have time to deal with this problem myself (other
than raising this red flag) so I hope that others will be able to.
A.
--
>From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of
Big Brother, from the age of doublethink - greetings!
- Winston Smith, 1984
