You're making a lot of assumptions here. Seems like you have some deeper issue than someone asking a simple question about support. Maybe a break from the computer is in order.
Happy new year -m On January 4, 2023 7:33:59 AM PST, Matthias Andree <matthias.and...@gmx.de> wrote: >Am 04.01.23 um 15:58 schrieb Mica Semrick: >> This answer is a bit rude and doesn't answer the original query. > >It may be rude if you consider "who cares" rude, and prevents people >from wasting their time while pointing out the actual issue, which is >"old distro" which is too old to build darktable 4.2. > >> There is an unmet dependency in Ubuntu 20.04 and the latest release >> can no longer be built. See >> https://discuss.pixls.us/t/what-happened-with-the-obs-builds/33588/2?u=darix >> for >> more information. > >Thanks for mass-confirming what I was writing. > >And scared users in that thread posted in November 2022, 7 months after >release, that they still considered Ubuntu "new", when 22.04.1 was out >and from-LTS-to-next-LTS upgrades had been enabled. Exactly the kind of >support open-source maintainers want to be distracted with. I haven't >even looked whether the OBS people are the same as the darktable people, >but you'd think it best to move things forward rather than tying them up >in the past. > >The thing is you can't have the cake and eat it, so everyone please stop >pretending they could. > >Ubuntu 20.04 (code-named focal fossa) shipped darktable 3.0, and >darktable being in the "universe" community-unmaintained package set... >being stuck with older darktable is a choice that people made by NOT >upgrading their Ubuntu LTS in the past three months. >https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=focal&searchon=names&keywords=darktable > >And it's also either you choose a Ubuntu LTS distro and live with >whatever unmaintained ("universe") package came with it, and be stuck >with it, or you pick something that installs an app and all its distro >deps redundantly in a distro (snap or flatpack, if available) with all >the drawbacks of its isolation and bulk, or you need to move to a distro >that is up to speed if your interest is "new software" and integrates >such quickly. Rolling or frequent releases and distros exist, but that's >not Ubuntu LTS, and possibly no Debian-based distro at all. > >Having said that, Fedora 37 or FreeBSD 13.1 built darktable 4.2 nicely >for me. > >I wonder why all the world can expect everyone to maintain every new >package for their museum piece of desktop distro install and NOT be >considered rude. Expecting someone to maintain software or packages >thereof for older distros, on a voluntary basis, free of charge, is what >I consider egoistic and rude. It is an enormous waste of resources. > > >___________________________________________________________________________ >darktable developer mailing list >to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > ___________________________________________________________________________ darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
