[Digikam-devel] [Bug 173901] New: digikam contains a convience copy of cimg code

[Mark Purcell]

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173901

           Summary: digikam contains a convience copy of cimg code
           Product: digikam
           Version: 0.9.4
          Platform: unspecified
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: digikam-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: msp at debian.org


Version:           0.9.4 (using 3.5.10, Debian Package 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-1
(lenny/sid))
Compiler:          Target: i486-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.26-1-686

As has been done with the sqlite3 library it would be good for digikam during
build to check and see if there is a system installed cimg library of the
correct version and build/ link against that, rather than the internal copy of
that lib.

By doing this system resources are saved by linking to shared libs and security
issues/ bugs in libs only need to be fixed in one location rather than all the
applications which may or may not embed copies.

Of course this does make version control an issue, however as demonstrated by
sqlite3 it is workable.

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160966#c65

Mark

----------  Forwarded Message  ----------

Subject: Bug#484777: digikam contains a convience copy of cimg code
Date: Friday 06 June 2008
From: Mark Purcell <msp at debian.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>

Package: digikam
Version: 2:0.9.4~beta5-1
Severity: wishlist

Debian policy 3.8.0.0 states:

  * Debian packages should not use convience copies of code from other
    packages unless the included package is explicitly intended to be
    used that way.                                            [4.13]

digikam does this with cimg (version 1.2.8).


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