Bug#905884: closed by Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> (Re: Bug#905884: RFS: chafa/0.9.0+git20180731.5ddfe4c-1 [ITP])

[Lumin <cdluminate@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 11:00:03AM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 06:26:46AM +0000, Lumin wrote:
> > 
> >  * Package name    : chafa
> >    Version         : 0.9.0+git20180731.5ddfe4c-1
> >  * URL             : https://hpjansson.org/chafa/
> >  * License         : LGPL-3
> 
> >   It builds those binary packages:
> > 
> >     chafa - Image-to-text converter supporting a wide range of symbols, etc.
> >     libchafa-dev - development files for image-to-text converter chafa
> >     libchafa0  - library for image-to-text converter chafa
> 
> > chafa (0.9.0+git20180731.5ddfe4c-1) unstable; urgency=low
> > 
> >   * Initial release. (Closes: #905882)
> 
> Awesome!  Chafa was on my TODO list, I just lacked the tuits to package it.
> And I really prefer work to be done by people who are not me.  :)
> 
> It's drastically better than catimg for Unicode images, and than caca for
> plain ASCII.

I came across Chafa several hours ago as a catimg user, and I was
surprised by this brilliant tool. Chafa provides much better
functionality compared to CACA and catimg, and supports many
image formats.

> In NEW.

Thanks!