Debian packaging

Dear imageio community.

I would like to resume my initial effort to package imageio for Debian, now that the project has gained some maturity. I intend to centralize all questions, concerns and feedback on the process in this issue, which I’ll close once the packaging is achieved or dropped.

So far I have a working build but fail to run the test suite properly. Our builders do not face the internet so fetch remote sources is a no-no. I tried setting the IMAGEIO_NO_INTERNET=1 envvar, but the testsuite fails with quite a few InternetNotAllowedError errors. Perhaps I am doing something wrong here.

Another concern is that the packaged imageio should be using the packaged dependencies for freeimage, ffmpeg and other libraries called via ctypes. I guess there is no other way but patch the source code directly, unless I am missing something.

Thanks for your assistance.

Ghis

[stefanv]

I quite like the ‘imageio:image.png’ format. It signals that something special is happening, so no surprises if the local png doesn’t get local. Also, a valid URL, so all good.

[almarklein]

Resolved #184 and #185. #178 is handled via Pypi.

The release is out! https://pypi.python.org/pypi/imageio/2.0.0