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Re: xv (graphics package)



On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 01:57:56PM -0500, Jerry_Bash@spectral-sys.com wrote:
> I seem to recall that the xv package (graphics viewer / editor) by John 
> Bradley was formerly included in an earlier distribution (potato, maybe?).
> It doesn't seem to be in the current distributions.

rei $ dpkg -l | grep "3.10a-27"   
ii  xv             3.10a-27       An image viewer and manipulator for the X Wi
ii  xv-doc         3.10a-27       XV Documentation in Postscript and HTML form

I have built the last package from Potato (-26) against the then current
unstable (back at 9 Feb 2003) with no apparent problems.

xv (3.10a-27) unstable; urgency=low

  * Rebuilt to get rid of xlib6g dependency
  * fixed most of ./patches-upstream, which were not applying
  * added tiff1200.patch
  * added bmp32.patch
  * added pdf.patch
  * added croppad.patch
  * added gif.patch
  * added aspect-resize.patch from http://shh.thathost.com/patches/
  * added wheelmouse.patch from
    http://www.coara.or.jp/~sudakyo/DAS_Works/Graphic/
  * added dirwkey.patch from
    http://www.coara.or.jp/~sudakyo/DAS_Works/Graphic/
  * added printkey.patch from
    http://www.coara.or.jp/~sudakyo/DAS_Works/Graphic/

 -- Marc Wilson <msw@cox.net>  Mon, 09 Feb 2003 17:58:22 -0800

I just wish I could distribute it. :)

But it's really not hard for anyone with a little time to fix up.  This
will work:

# unofficial xv source
deb-src http://debian.uni-essen.de/misc/local/ theo-phys local

And you can see where to get the patches. :)

There are binary debs there too, but I didn't care about them as they're
the Potato ones.

Maybe it's just that I used xv before I used anything else, but all the
"free" image viewers make me crazy.

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