Hello Osamu,
Thanks for the bug report and the notification that the SVN repo is
actually being updated, I must confess that I had not noticed. As you've
observed, there's really not much that needs to be done to this package,
although of course I should take a look at some of the old tickets against
it.
I welcome careful NMUs, but please do not try to hijack the package. I
will try to make some time to look at it, but as I say, you're welcome to
help out with NMUs.
Rene
On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 12:54:42PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> This upstream has not released the tarball recently from 2008 but he is still
> actively updating code in the SVN repo.
>
> In his svn repo started 2009 as r1, now it is r334 in 2016.
> svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/mapivi/code/ mapivi-code (SF web site
> info)
> git svn clone svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/mapivi/code/ mapivi-code (This works
> better)
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/mapivi/
> https://sourceforge.net/p/mapivi/code/commit_browser
>
> This is one of a few GUI interface tool to batch adjust the internal
> EXIF time stamp with fixed time difference which is quite convenient
> when you realize your picture files have wrong time stamp inside. This
> is important if you have multiple camera and if you want to match
> time line properly.
>
> (FYI: phatch was suppose to have similar capability but it is not
> working in Debian now and I tried to port FEDORA patches but there were
> still some problems. Also its real upstream is non-active. So I think
> it is not worth spending time on my time. Writing script with jhread
> etc., is a bit cumbersome.)
>
> So it is a good idea to bring this tool up to date by packaging the
> updated upstream code.
>
> If no one objects, I may hijack this when I find some time :-)
> The maintainer is not touching this package for 8 years.
>
> It's amazing how stable this software is with just one NMU to fix a Perl
> oddity change.
>
> There are only 3 bugs which are easy to be addressed:
>
> #592945 mapivi: the add coment and edit comment windows do not have any
> buttons
> --> "Add comment" seems OK
> --> "Edit comment" does not open .. ???
> --> Probably fixed in upstream by now ???
> #796376 mapivi: please make the build reproducible
> --> patch available in BTS
> #675948 mapivi: Doesn't appear in the XFCE menu
> --> Its problem for Gnome/KDE too
> --> Just add a desktop file if upstream has not
>
> #NOT_REPORTED
> --> Probably fixed in upstream by now ???
> --> Upstream comment says v1.1 so naming upstream version like 1.0.r???
> should be OK
> --> Does not return to the shell prompt upon exit sometimes ??? (needs to be
> checked)
> --> Missing usable watch file
> --> Strange console outputs:
> ---------------------------
> | $ mapivi
> |
> | Mapivi 0.9.7 - Martin's Picture Viewer and Organizer
> | Copyright (C) 2002 - 2008 Martin Herrmann
> | Mapivi comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> | This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute
> | it under certain conditions.
> |
> | XS_Tk__Callback_Call error:not a Tk object
> | Tk::die_with_trace at
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.22/Tk/ProgressBar.pm line 101
> | Tk::ProgressBar::_arrange at
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.22/Tk/After.pm line 90
> | (eval) at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.22/Tk/After.pm line 90
> | Tk::After::once at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.22/Tk/Widget.pm line
> 1006
> | (eval) at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.22/Tk/Widget.pm line 1006
> | Tk::Widget::waitVariable at /usr/bin/mapivi line 12836
> | main::checkDialog at /usr/bin/mapivi line 5023
> | main::makeDir at /usr/bin/mapivi line 3068
> | main::generateThumbs at /usr/bin/mapivi line 15552
> | main::updateThumbs at /usr/bin/mapivi line 2096
> | main::startup at /usr/bin/mapivi line 1606
> |
> | XS_Tk__Callback_Call error:not a Tk object
> | Tk::die_with_trace at
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.22/Tk/ProgressBar.pm line 101
> | Tk::ProgressBar::_arrange at
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.22/Tk/After.pm line 90
> | (eval) at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.22/Tk/After.pm line 90
> | Tk::After::once at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.22/Tk/Widget.pm line
> 1006
> | (eval) at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.22/Tk/Widget.pm line 1006
> | Tk::Widget::waitVariable at /usr/bin/mapivi line 12836
> | main::checkDialog at /usr/bin/mapivi line 5023
> | main::makeDir at /usr/bin/mapivi line 3068
> | main::generateThumbs at /usr/bin/mapivi line 15552
> | main::updateThumbs at /usr/bin/mapivi line 2096
> | main::startup at /usr/bin/mapivi line 1606
> |
> | ^C
> | $ mapivi
> |
> | Mapivi 0.9.7 - Martin's Picture Viewer and Organizer
> | Copyright (C) 2002 - 2008 Martin Herrmann
> | Mapivi comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> | This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute
> | it under certain conditions.
> |
> | Use of uninitialized value $rc in string ne at /usr/bin/mapivi line 9313.
> |
> ---------------------------
>
> For now I am a happy user of this old but very stable tool.
>
> Osamu
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: stretch/sid
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (98, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
> Versions of packages mapivi depends on:
> ii libimage-info-perl 1.28-1.1
> ii libimage-metadata-jpeg-perl 0.153-1
> ii perl 5.22.1-10
> ii perl-tk 1:804.033-1+b2
>
> Versions of packages mapivi recommends:
> ii imagemagick 8:6.8.9.9-7+b2
> ii jhead 1:3.00-3
> ii libimage-exiftool-perl 10.15-1
> ii libjpeg-turbo-progs [libjpeg-progs] 1:1.4.2-2
>
> Versions of packages mapivi suggests:
> ii jpegpixi 1.1.1-4.1+b2
>
> -- no debconf information
