Bug 652672

Summary:	media-libs/vips restore package in the tree (ebuild rewrite required)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	ta2002 <throw_away_2002>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Ionen Wolkens <ionen>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	jstein, kamensky.fb, steffen.weber
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description ta2002 2018-04-06 11:31:44 UTC

This was in the tree at least from 2005 (possibly before) up until about five years ago when it suddenly disappeared (and I can't seem to find the reason it did).

Home page:

https://github.com/jcupitt/libvips

Why this is useful (1):

https://github.com/jcupitt/libvips/wiki/Speed-and-memory-use

Why this is useful (2):

It is one of the very few programs available for linux that supports .heic (HEVC).

Comment 1 Harri Nieminen (Moiman) 2018-04-06 12:13:42 UTC

Here is reason why it was removed

# Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> (28 Dec 2017)
# A major version bump is needed (#412447), fails with multilib-strict
# (#613542), not compatible with newer imagemagick (#619514), cannot be
# downloaded (#635566). Removal in a month.
media-libs/vips
media-gfx/nip2

Comment 2 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev

2018-04-06 14:23:38 UTC

Please have a look at these ebuilds
http://gpo.zugaina.org/media-libs/vips

test, report and improve them.
I suggest to work hand in hand with the overlay maintainer at first.

As soon as someone provides a clean ebuild and wants to maintain it, we can reintroduce it to the tree.

Comment 3 Ionen Wolkens gentoo-dev

2023-05-12 11:00:40 UTC

Was re-added to ::gentoo in:
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=268a9029004a

Hadn't realized this used to be in the tree, but well it's back now.

nip2 isn't, I don't have a personal interest in it but if someone want it I wouldn't be against it.