[Pkg-kde-extras] Re: digikam 0.8.2 for etch, the next Debian release!? (due to exiv2 0.12)

[Achim Bohnet]

On Tuesday, 12. December 2006 21:44, Mark Purcell wrote:
> <pkg-kde-extras only>
> 
> On Tuesday 12 December 2006 19:35, Achim Bohnet wrote:
> > the debian-release managers do not accept a library
> > transition from exiv2 0.10 to 0.12 as etch is already
> > frozen:
> 
> Achim,
> 
> Thanks for this..
> 
> I have started getting digikam 0.8.2 ready in svn, and moved 0.9.2 to 
> branches/ experimental under svn.
> 
> But won't release the epoc'ed 0.8.2 to unstable for etch until we can at least 
> get a concensus on pkg-kde-extras.

What worries me, are the crashes on reported with exiv2 0.10.
In b.d.o as will as on ml, culminating in an FAQ:
http://www.digikam.org/?q=node/177

If it's really that bad, removing the users of libexiv2 0.10 in debian
is IMHO not the right solution for a stable release.

We'll (hopefully) read soon how Andreas describes the state of 0.10
versus 0.12.
 
> I do see one negative in reverting to 0.8.2 as the digikam .db file might of 
> changed format and not be backwards compatible. However, I think that is 
> acceptable the important factor is that upgrades from stable to etch are 
> smooth, rather than unstable/ testing archives remaining totally stable.

AFAIK 0.9 did not change DB layout.
> 
> After all people using unstable/ testing are already accepting a level of 
> risk.
> 
> I would also like to get 0.9.rc-2 into experimental as soon as possible, so 
> those who would like to stick with 0.9.2 have somewhere to go.

I would suggest: Let's give Andreas Huggel one day to explain
exiv2 status.  If libexiv2 0.10 is no 'danger' for the etch users,
let's upload immediately to experimental.

Achim
> 
> Mark
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