Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: media-gfx/gmic

[Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>]

Zoltan Puskas <zoltan@sinustrom.info> writes:

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> On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 12:24:32PM +0100, Marek Szuba wrote:
>> On 2023-10-26 02:29, Jonas Stein wrote:
>> 
>> > this is a very powerful package with many users.
>> 
>> ...but sadly, very few maintainers. It was m-n when I took it over 3 years
>> ago, as apparently no-one found it worth looking after following the
>> disbanding of the Graphics project - and that was back when upstream still
>> used CMake! Telling the truth I wasn't exactly interested either, it's just
>> that it happened to be an optional dependency of media-gfx/darktable.
>> 
>> > Thank you for maintaining it till now.
>> 
>> You're very welcome!
>> 
>> > Could you address the exact problems to upstream, so they are aware and
>> > can improve it?
>> > I think not only Gentoo, but also other distributions suffer if it does
>> > not build smooth.
>> 
>> I used to do that. It seemed to have little to no effect so in the end I
>> just gave up.
>> 
>> > Looks to me as if the package is not broken now, but there is a lack of
>> > manpower to update it. 30 days is the minimum for a removal.
>> 
>> There are two outstanding QA issues (ignored LDFLAGS and pre-stripped
>> binaries) in 3.3.1 pertaining to USE=gimp and USE=qt5. Prior to adding that
>> version I tried to leverage qmake-utils.eclass in the Qt parts of the
>> package, which hopefully would have got rid of these issues - but resulted
>> in a wall of actual errors. This has been the last straw as far as me
>> maintaining G'MIC is concerned.
>> 
>> > I suggest to keep it for a few more months.
>> 
>> Fine by me if someone actually maintains it. I've just dropped
>> media-gfx/gmic back to m-n to make it clear that I do not intend to block it
>> from being reactivated.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Marecki
>> 
>
> This is quite a loss. Ever since the dropping the gimp-resynthesizer plugin (due
> to Python2 deprecation) gmic was the last package to provide "heal selection"
> functionality in GIMP. Losing gmic will put GIMP behind other image editing
> software by a significant margin.
>
> I'm wondering if we could collaborate with other distro developers on building
> and improving the state of this package. E.g. Debian seems to be packaging gmic
> by itself and also for gimp and krita. I wonder if it's possible to build the
> gimp plugin portion only and not deal with gmic QT frontend?

https://github.com/GreycLab/gmic/issues/17 indicates upstream are open
to PRs at least.

>
> Zoltan
>
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