Upstream uses a massive home-made Makefile which has since the beginning required massive amounts of patching to make it behave reasonably (as well as to fix the problems which ostensibly led upstream to abandoning CMake, only to re-introduce them in their NIH solution) and which if anything have only got worse since then. One, optional, reverse dependency in the tree. Removal on 2023-11-26.
Hi Marek I just noticed you recently had some nasty experience with packaging and thus are considering dropping gmic entirely. I understand it must have been a completely bad experience and baldly positive outlook. Therefore I encouraged upstream to improve downstream packagers experience (CI tests, build system, etc.) see https://github.com/GreycLab/gmic/issues/17 A very first action from upstream might be to include your elaborated patches... Let's see what happens... maybe life improves - but if not I also completely understand your decision drop maintaining gmic (y)
(In reply to Thomas Bettler from comment #1) > Let's see what happens... maybe life improves - but if not I also completely > understand your decision drop maintaining gmic (y) Fingers crossed. Perhaps some might disagree but personally, I think media-gfx/gmic MUST have upstream's co-operation if it is to be kept.
I'd like to point out that flowblade (from what I can tell the only decent video editor for Linux) has gmic as a dependency. Flowblade isn't in the tree officially, but can be installed from github with some modifications to MLT's dependencies (see https://bugs.gentoo.org/592380).
It looks like the upstream maintainer has moved the CMakelist.txt back to the root directory as of https://github.com/GreycLab/gmic/commit/ce6e427d93bb19beee8d6e3d5446ed04b48a103a and released as 3.3.2 Does this resolve the Gentoo packaging issue? Or is this still set to be masked?
It's a very useful package, it would be a shame if it wasn't in Gentoo anymore.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=2370ccc23b716093107815bd8fe67472a79e2210 commit 2370ccc23b716093107815bd8fe67472a79e2210 Author: Arthur Zamarin <arthurzam@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2023-12-15 20:51:43 +0000 Commit: Arthur Zamarin <arthurzam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-12-15 20:55:32 +0000 media-gfx/gmic: treeclean Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/916289 Signed-off-by: Arthur Zamarin <arthurzam@gentoo.org> media-gfx/gmic/Manifest | 2 - media-gfx/gmic/files/gmic-3.1.6-ar_so.patch | 26 ---- media-gfx/gmic/files/gmic-3.2.0-grep38.patch | 27 ---- .../gmic/files/gmic-3.2.4-makefile_automagic.patch | 131 ------------------- .../gmic/files/gmic-3.2.5-relative_rpath.patch | 22 ---- .../files/gmic-3.2.6-makefile_target_deps.patch | 11 -- media-gfx/gmic/gmic-3.2.6.ebuild | 140 --------------------- media-gfx/gmic/gmic-3.3.1.ebuild | 140 --------------------- media-gfx/gmic/metadata.xml | 12 -- profiles/package.mask | 10 -- profiles/targets/desktop/package.use | 4 - 11 files changed, 525 deletions(-) Additionally, it has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=0daaeca9fb2d1450d6ad3ae593ea4365a18abefe commit 0daaeca9fb2d1450d6ad3ae593ea4365a18abefe Author: Arthur Zamarin <arthurzam@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2023-12-15 20:53:39 +0000 Commit: Arthur Zamarin <arthurzam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-12-15 20:55:32 +0000 media-gfx/darktable: remove IUSE=gmic The package behind it, media-gfx/gmic, was masked and just tree-cleaned. The use flag was already masked before, so this is just a nop removal. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/916289 Signed-off-by: Arthur Zamarin <arthurzam@gentoo.org> media-gfx/darktable/darktable-4.2.1.ebuild | 5 ++--- media-gfx/darktable/darktable-4.4.2.ebuild | 5 ++--- media-gfx/darktable/metadata.xml | 1 - profiles/base/package.use.mask | 4 ---- 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
