FS#58972 - [gnome-documents] gnome-epub-thumbnailer needs to be packaged as opt-dependency

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Christopher Davis (brainblasted) - Monday, 11 June 2018, 18:48 GMT
Last edited by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Saturday, 27 October 2018, 16:09 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

GNOME Documents includes the program GNOME Books. Without gnome-epud-thumbnailer, Books shows a stock icon for every book. With gnome-epub-thumnailer installed it properly generates and displays thumbnails. The same behaviour is also in Nautilus.

There is a PKGBUILD in the AUR.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Saturday, 27 October 2018, 16:09 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  gnome-documents 3.30.0-2
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Tuesday, 12 June 2018, 10:08 GMT
Probably other thumbnailers like the one included in evince also works.
Not adding this one: the last release is 3 years ago and the git repository wasn't migrated to gitlab: dead upstream. Github mirror also doesn't show any activity.
Comment by Christopher Davis (brainblasted) - Tuesday, 12 June 2018, 14:11 GMT
Unfortunately, the one included in Evince does not work for this purpose. The repository was migrated to GitLab, at https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gnome-epub-thumbnailer.

Regarding activity, why does that matter? The library was created for a specific purpose, which is thumbnailing epubs. It still does the job, so there would be little
work that needs to be done.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Tuesday, 12 June 2018, 14:39 GMT
Software in /Archive/ is no longer maintained software. When it breaks, nobody will fix it. I don't want to introduce "new" software in the repositories that doesn't get any upstream maintenance.
We already have enough bitrotten software in our repositories that require 10+ patches to get it even compiled, let's not introduce more.
Comment by Christopher Davis (brainblasted) - Tuesday, 12 June 2018, 16:54 GMT
It has been moved to /GNOME/. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-epub-thumbnailer
Comment by Christopher Davis (brainblasted) - Thursday, 14 June 2018, 23:57 GMT
Could you reconsider this now that gnome-epub-thumbnailer has been moved from Archive? That should be a good sign to the state of its maintainership.

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