Bug#700150: RM: flickcurl/1.22-1

[Ivo De Decker <ivo.dedecker@ugent.be>]

Control: block -1 by 700314
Control: block -1 by 700315

Hi,

On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 08:54:20AM -0600, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> > Checking reverse dependencies...
> > # Broken Depends:
> > darktable: darktable [amd64 i386 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386]
> > rawstudio: rawstudio
> > 
> > # Broken Build-Depends:
> > darktable: libflickcurl-dev
> > rawstudio: libflickcurl-dev
> 
> I see the problem. Now, this is the situation:
> 
> 138 files changed, 8688 insertions(+), 3873 deletions(-)
> 
> The cause for this is that the way parameters are passed around has
> been re-engineered in this version. Functionally, this doesn't alter
> much, but it makes it nearly impossible to backport just the
> authentication mechanism.
> 
> Could you please advise me on what to do in this case, given that
> darktable and rawstudio are fairly popular packages?

I filed bugs (with patches) against both packages, to have the
(build-)dependency on flickcurl removed:
http://bugs-master.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=700314
http://bugs-master.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=700315

For darktable, this will have to go via TPU.

Cheers,

Ivo