Comment 6 for bug 898845

2011/12/2 James Page <email address hidden>:
> Whats the current status of getting this package into Debian? I'd prefer
> to push a new upstream release that way at this point in the Ubuntu
> release cycle.

Debian has a very old FreeImage release (3.10 -> November 19th, 2007)
and patched to use the system libraries instead of his embedded
copies.

I don't have any problem on upload FreeImage to Debian but I can't
spend time in mantain all his patches:

http://patch-tracker.debian.org/package/freeimage/3.10.0-4

Also, I don't think that those changes will be safe.

I prefer keep working with an unpatched release of FreeImage.

> I did take a look at the attached debdiff; however I had issues applying
> without alot of hacking as the generated upstream tarball contains
> Windows formatted files so the patch in the debdiff won't apply cleanly.
> It would be great if that could be tidied up first; maybe using a bzr
> branch might make that a little easier.

I didn't have any issue applying the patch and as I said, 3.15.1
release with this debdiff builds fine in my Launchpad PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~cosme/+archive/my-builds?field.series_filter=precise

But if you want a bzr upload instead of a debdiff then it's done:

https://code.launchpad.net/~cosme/ubuntu/precise/freeimage/freeimage-3.15.1

I upload only the packaging changes. I don't know if I should also
upload the upstream source.