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Any chance of including exiv2 0.27.5 in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS?

Asked by David H

On https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jammy/+source/exiv2 I see that Ubuntu 22.04 currently includes exiv2 0.27.3

Exiv2 v0.27.5 includes support for Canon *.CR3 image files. The CR3 file format has been the Canon camera-raw file format since mid 2018, and is probably one of the most common raw image file formats today. Applications such as darktable, amongst others, use exiv2 to extract image metadata, thumbnails and previews, and can only open CR3 files when linked with exiv2 0.27.5 or later.

Note that exiv2 0.27.5 needs to be built with -DEXIV2_ENABLE_BMFF=On to enable *.CR3 support.

Would it be possible to get Exiv2 v0.27.5 with BMFF support enabled included in Ubuntu 22.04?

References
https://github.com/exiv2/exiv2#2-19
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/1229
https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/pull/10332
https://github.com/Beep6581/RawTherapee/issues/6248#issuecomment-869208918

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

You can report a bug and it may be included.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#2

Ubuntu is copying packages from Debian (to avoid double packaging work) and also Debian has only version 0.27.3

There is already a bug report https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1000788 to request an update, but apparently that has not yet been dealt with.

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