Why is libmediainfo not included with Rapid Photo Downloader program?

How did you install Rapid Photo Downloader?

It seems to me that this is an error in that package, and not something wrong with libmediainfo

The Ubuntu-provided package rapid-photo-downloader has a defined dependency on the libmediainfo* package (details depend on Ubuntu release), so when installing the Ubuntu-provided version that package is automatically installed.

For diagnostic purposes please provide the output of the commands

uname -a
lsb_release -crid
apt-cache policy rapid-photo-downloader
dpkg -l | grep libmedia

It came with Ubuntu studio.
I did not find directions on getting this lib downloaded and installed.
When I get better internet access in 5 hours I will try more on this. (my daily allotment is almost gone)

Once we get the output of the commands it will help drive the question forward

Please add also the output of the command

sudo dpkg --Audit

(might be no output at all)

sorry, wrong autocorrect, should have been

sudo dpkg --audit

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Please paste the output of the commands into the message box of https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libmediainfo/+question/691110

uname -a
lsb_release -crid
apt-cache policy rapid-photo-downloader
dpkg -l | grep libmedia
sudo dpkg --audit

@Damon Lynch: If this is a known problem, why hasn't that been reported as a bug to be fixed?

@Manfred Hampl perhaps it could be fixed by an SRU, if that is what an SRU can be used for? I learned about SRUs only recently so I'm not that familiar with how they work.

What I do know is that when I do submit bug reports on the package in Debian, sometimes the packager fixes them, and sometimes they don't. This one was eventually fixed. Other packaging problems are not, which is frustrating.

@Damon Lynch: the bug trackers of Debian and Ubuntu are separate systems.
and for information about SRU see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

@Manfred Hampl I'm well aware they're different systems. After all a big part of my job as a FOSS developer is handling bug reports and feature requests.

Thanks Damon Lynch, that solved my question.