[libcamera-devel] Renaming of libcamera-apps

[Naushir Patuck]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 at 08:15, Naushir Patuck <naush at raspberrypi.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> If you don't use the Raspberry Pi libcamera-apps applications, please
> ignore this email.
>
> What's happening?
> libcamera-apps has not been renamed to rpicam-apps. This includes all

Of all the typos... what I meant to say was ibcamera-apps has **now**
been renamed to rpicam-apps :)

> the applications (e.g. libcamera-still -> rpicam-still, libcamera-vid
> - > rpicam-vid, etc.), the library file (libcamera_app.so ->
> rpicam_app.so), deb packages (e.g. libcamera-apps -> rpicam-apps), and
> the github repo (https://github.com/raspberrypi/libcamera-apps ->
> https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpicam-apps).
>
> Why?
> libcamera-apps has always been owned and maintained by Raspberry Pi as
> a suite of camera applications that uses the libcamera API to drive
> our cameras on the platform. However because of the naming, some
> people have come to associate libcamera-apps with the core libcamera
> dev team. This places an unnecessary burden on them when these users
> reach out to them for support or bug reports. To avoid such confusion
> going forward, we are removing "libcamera-" from the package names.
>
> What do I need to do?
> In the short term, nothing. The build scripts will provide symlinks
> for the old application and library names to the new names. The old
> repo URL and apt packages should automatically redirect to the new
> one. So ideally, nothing needs to change immediately with existing
> workflows.
>
> However, we strongly encourage everyone to start using the new names
> as soon as possible. In the future, the symlinks and redirects will be
> removed and the old naming scheme will be deprecated.
>
> What if things go wrong?
> Please create a github issue on
> https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpicam-apps and we will try and get
> things fixed as soon as possible.
>
> Thanks,
> Naush