New packages in my experimental repository

May 3rd, 2008

As some of you might have noticed, I have uploaded a bunch of new packages to my experimental repository, all of them related to digital photographic workflow. Most of them are based on existing packages, but built from a VCS snapshot to benefit from newly supported hardware and new features.

  • ufraw was updated to support my Sony DSLR-A700 camera - packaged based on the latest release available in sid.
  • hugin package in unstable is outdated - I have based my package on Debian PhotoTools member Cyril Brulebois’s work. It seems that some legal questions have been raised, preventing the package to be updated in the official archive.
  • autopano-sift fixes FTBS and other bugs in Christian Marillat’s package and proves working well with hugin. I will e-mail him a patch with the amendments I have worked on.
  • enblend needs to be built from VCS to work with current hugin snapshots. The package is fully based on the package available in sid.

Though I use these packages on a regular basis, they haven’t been thoroughly tested as official packages would be, and might still contain bugs or errors. Please report any problem you might have.

I will try and update these packages when time allows it. VCS snapshots might be unstable, or even non-usable. As usual, use these non-official packages on your own risk.

Also note that these packages are currently only available for amd64. I will eventually build i386 packages if requested.

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2 Responses to “New packages in my experimental repository”

  1. Andreas Metzler Says:
    May 4th, 2008 at 11:22 am

    Afaik the reason why hugin/unstable is still 0.6.1 instead of svn-snapshort or the outdated beta4 are not copyright issues, but the fact that its maintainers think it is not a good idea to have an svn snapshot or a beta version in a stable release.

  2. Julien Says:
    May 4th, 2008 at 11:32 am

    Thanks for your comment.

    I think I have misunderstood Cyril’s explanations which might apply to autopano-sift or autopano-sift-c (patents issue on the SIFT algorythm if I am right).

    I think it would be great to have more recent versions (even snapshots) uploaded to experimental then as the features of all these tools evolve very quickly… If any maintainer is reading this, I am offering my help for this if needed.

    By the way, I have just uploaded autopano-sift-C which is a C rewrite of the existing C# written autopano-sift.

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