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Bug#633721: ITP: shared-color-profiles -- colour profiles to be used in colour management aware applications



On 11-07-15 at 07:05pm, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 13:58 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > On 11-07-13 at 05:22pm, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote:
> > > Package: wnpp
> > > Severity: wishlist
> > > Owner: Christopher James Halse Rogers <raof@ubuntu.com>
> > > 
> > > 
> > > * Package name    : shared-color-profiles
> > >   Version         : 0.1.4
> > >   Upstream Author : Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com>
> > > * URL             : http://www.freedesktop.org/software/colord/
> > > * License         : confused (zlib, CC-BY-SA, MIT, GPL)
> > >   Programming Lang: data
> > >   Description : colour profiles to be used in colour management 
> > >                 aware applications
> > > 
> > > The shared-color-profiles package contains profiles for various 
> > > colour spaces and standard devices. When combined with profiles 
> > > for your specific devices, these can be used by colour management 
> > > aware programs to provide a colour-managed workflow, ensuring that 
> > > the colours you see on your camera, scanner, display, and printer 
> > > all match.
> > > 
> > > These profiles will be used by colord.
> > > 
> > > The copyright and license for some of the files are a bit 
> > > confused.  I'm checking with upstream to get that sorted out.
> > 
> > I suspect those ICC files not really has freedesktop.org as upstream 
> > URL, but are only convenience copies from other canonical sources.
> > 
> 
> This is correct.
> 
> > Are you aware of the package icc-profiles in contrib?
> > 
> > Seems more sensible that we join forces on improving that package - 
> > including splitting it into binary "icc-profiles" and 
> > "icc-profiles-contrib" packages.
> 
> Yeah, that makes sense.  colord would really like at least a base set 
> of colour spaces available, so it'd be good to get a set of fully-free 
> profiles into Debian proper.
> 
> There seem to some profiles in s-c-p that aren't in icc-profiles; if 
> they're useful we should pull them over.
> 
> Also, if I understand it correctly, all the profiles from 
> shared-color-profiles have had cd-fix-profiles (from colord) run over 
> them to embed a profile ID to make startup faster.
> 
> How do you want to do this?


I suggest that...

 a) you reassign this bugreport to icc-profiles, set severity to normal, 
and retitle to a request for providing two binary packages as I 
described above.

 b) you join our little packaging team for icc-profiles (and that it is 
ok with Oleksandr - I only recently became co-maintainer).


 - Jonas

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