Hello, Since the transitional package question has been fixed, can somebody take another a look at icoextract? The new code is at https://salsa.debian.org/wine-team/icoextract Best, James On 2019-12-22 1:04 p.m., James Lu wrote: > Hi all, > > A while ago I posted about icoextract, my icon extractor library for > Windows PE files[1]. This is a new library written in Python using > pefile for resource extraction and pillow (python-pil) for thumbnail > conversion. > > I've since prepared Debian packaging for the project, tentatively placed > at https://salsa.debian.org/jlu-guest/icoextract. (I couldn't push to > wine-team/icoextract since I don't have permissions to set a default > branch?) > > The packaging is split into 3 binary packages: > python3-icoextract: the library portion of icoextract > icoextract: the icoextract command line tools (icoextract & icolist) > icoextract-thumbnailer: icoextract's exe-thumbnailer rewrite > (conflicts/provides with exe-thumbnailer) > > In my testing, icoextract's thumbnailer seems stable enough - I've > thrown two dozen installer exes (including 900MB(!) installer packages > that wrestool struggles with), and a Windows installation's files at it > without any issue. The project also includes a basic round-trip test > case using MinGW to compile a dummy .exe[2]. > > With all this in mind, I'm inclined to deprecate the existing > exe-thumbnailer unless someone else wants to work on it. However, since > icoextract is new & has a lower version (0.1.0) than exe-thumbnailer, > I'm not exactly sure how to set up a transitional package. Any advice on > this would be appreciated! > > Best, > James > > [1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-wine/2019/10/msg00008.html > [2]: https://github.com/jlu5/icoextract/tree/master/tests >
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