Please use Debian packaging

[Andrej Shadura]

There was already LP: #539009 about this, but once again Ubuntu seems to be packaging Shotwell on their own then the Debian maintainer does a very good job keeping the package up to date.

Please review the Ubuntu-only patches and switch to the Debian packages, submitting Ubuntu delta upstream or to Debian, if needed.

Thanks,
Andrej, a Shotwell user and the sponsor of the uploads of Shotwell to Debian

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, that's not really a bug though. We regularly rebase our packages on Debian and sync when possible, no need to keep a report in launchpad for that topic so I'm closing it

[Andrej Shadura (andrew.sh)]

Well, from a cursory glance the Ubuntu package looks very different from
the Debian's one, and it has for a long time.

On Thu, 15 Aug 2019, 23:35 Sebastien Bacher, <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thank you for your bug report, that's not really a bug though. We
> regularly rebase our packages on Debian and sync when possible, no need
> to keep a report in launchpad for that topic so I'm closing it
>
> ** Changed in: shotwell (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
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> ** Changed in: shotwell (Ubuntu)
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[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

> the Debian maintainer does a very good job keeping the package up to date.

commenting back about that point, Debian is still on 0.30.5 when 0.30.7 is available since Aug 20th, if we had waited for them we would have missed the Ubuntu freeze and would ship a version that regressed flickr authentification