* Top Rock Photography <[email protected]> [09-13-20 15:05]:
> This is not logical, and somewhat incorrect. The [ lensfun-data-v1 ]
> package needs no mention of the file, as the programme makes mention of it.
> In the worst-case scenario, the new version of lensfun already has the new
> camera/lens in its database, and any references to the same camera/lens in
> any extraneous files are ignored.
> 
> What system-wide updates do is that only one user has to run the update,
> (and we assume that that one user is a sysadmin who knows what they are
> doing). With local updates, all users have to run the update, creating
> multiple copies of the same file. Turning Debian into Windows is not a good
> idea. 😄😉
> 
> The only time a local update is advised, is when creating a custom entry
> for some non-standard camera/lens combination, such as a howe-made,
> Frankenstein, macro-lens. That is NOT something which one would necessarily
> want other users to have in their database.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Karim Hosein
> Top Rock Photography
> 754.999.1652
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 5 Sep 2020 at 10:42, Timur Irikovich Davletshin <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Let's imagine new camera or lens family appears, this creates new file
> > in lensfun data structure. This file is orphaned since it is not
> > mentioned in lensfun-data-v1 package. During regular apt update this
> > will create mess. Turning Debian into Slackware is not a good idea 😄
> >
> > Timur.
> >
> >
> 

We really have much too much time on our hands.  Perhaps time to go
capture some images?

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