Bug#270736: ITP: mapivi -- picture viewer, organizer, and largely lossless editor

[Rene Weber <rene_debmaint@public.e-mail.elvenlord.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : mapivi
  Version         : 0.4.1
  Upstream Author : Martin Herrmann <Martin-Herrmann@gmx.de>
* URL             : http://herrmanns-stern.de/software/mapivi/mapivi.shtml
* License         : GPL
  Description     : picture viewer, organizer, and largely lossless editor

 A image viewer which is also able to display metadata from JPEG pictures,
 like EXIF, comments, and IPTC/IIM.  As a stand alone tool, there is no need
 for a web server, online access or a database.

 MaPiVi deals with EXIF data (like timestamp, camera model, focal length,
 exposure time, and aperture) and is able to create and edit JPEG comments.
 It also allows the user to rename pictures according to their internal
 date/time, do lossless rotation and cropping, build picture galleries for
 the web and other stuff.

 It is also useful to organize and search digital pictures. The idea of
 using MaPiVi as an picture organizer is to keep user, EXIF, and IPTC
 information where it belongs -- in the pictures -- as well in a searchable
 MaPiVi database.

 MaPiVi is able to do image processing by acting as a frontend (GUI) for
 many proven command line tools, like the Image Magick tools.

Note that MaPiVi depends on the Perl module Image::IPTCInfo which I will be
ITP'ing separately, and the Perl module Tk::JPEG which is not in Debian and
I'd rather not package since it's apparently been rolled into the current
perl-tk, and I see no reason to bloat the archive (unless someone wiser than
I in this issue disagrees).  MaPiVi will probably not be uploaded until
perl-tk is upgraded to an appropriate version, although I intend to make a
private test package that embeds Tk::JPEG (contact me if you'd like to test
it, if I get enough requests I'll put it up on some webspace).

Rene Weber