Bug#1053729: RFP: SAIL image decoding library

[Andrius Merkys <merkys@debian.org>]

Hi Dmitry,

On 2023-10-17 13:29, Dmitry Baryshev wrote:
> It would be great to have SAIL in Debian, at least in experimental. It's 
> a C/C++ image decoding library similar to FreeImage. It's already 
> available in Conan and VCPKG with thousands of installations.
>
> Website: https://sail.software/ <https://sail.software/>
> GitHub:https://github.com/HappySeaFox/sail 
> <https://github.com/HappySeaFox/sail>
> RFP request: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1053729 
> <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1053729>
> Build system: CMake
> Debian rules: Yes, but need revisiting
>
> Please pardon me if I'm writing to a wrong mailing list. Please CC any 
> comments as I'm not in the list.

I saw the GitHub repository already has debian/ directory, this is a 
good start. Does it produce desired Debian packages? Are these packages 
lintian-clean? Do you know any software already in Debian which would 
benefit from having SAIL in Debian?

Best wishes,
Andrius