On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:21:11 +0100, Iain Lane wrote: > Greetings, > > We just uploaded the next stable version of f-spot to experimental, > versioned as 0.8.0-1. > > This release is mostly a consolidation release on top of 0.6.2 which > is the version currently in Squeeze. I am of the opinion that the > improvements that this release offers make it a worthy candidate for > inclusion in the next Debian stable release. We have been staging the > development releases in experimental, and they have received testing > there, as well as being picked up by derivative distributions and > tested by their users. Please decide if, were to upload to unstable, > you would unblock and allow this version to transition. > > The import system, one of the most flaky parts of 0.6.2 has been > rewritten to be much more robust. There is an extensive list of closed > Debian bugs related to import. > > Metadata support is also much more robust than in the past. A bug > which concerned many users was that f-spot would modify imported > originals in 0.6.2. This has been fixed now, and f-spot will never > write to your images unless you explicitly ask it to in the > preferences. > > Most of our distro patches were disabled or upstreamed. Only one > remains, where we differ in opinion from upstream. The other patch is > a late fix backported from git. > > Upstream is of the opinion that 0.6.2 is now unsupported. He is > willing to support 0.8 with bug fixes for the long term. Of course if > you decide to deny this request then I will do my best to support > 0.6.2 regardless. > > The diff(stat) output will not be of much use to you, since the source > tree was reorganised to be more logical. > I think it's way too late (about 2 months) for this, sorry. Cheers, Julien
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