On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 15:04 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Package: f-spot > Version: 0.4.1-1 > Severity: important > > Upgraded f-spot today. Upon start f-sport exits with a very obscure > error messoge. > But I did what the dialog said, installed sqlite and sqlite3, then ran > f-spot-sqlite-upgrade > All I got is: > /usr/bin/f-spot-sqlite-upgrade: 13: Syntax error: Bad fd number
Welcome to the f-spot upgrade experience. f-spot 0.4.1 upstream actually does no sqlite2 detection at all, letting it die with even more obscure "error in SQL syntax near EXISTS". So what I did as (new) maintainer (as I am a C# developer too), I added a very simple sqlite2 detection and let f-spot bail out with an explaination how upstream wants/suggests the upgrade path using that f-spot-upgrade-sqlite script (which I didn't touch (yet)). As the error handling in f-spot during application initialization is very ba^Winteresting (throwing an exception resulted in a endless loop for example), I had no better display and handle the actual upgrade process. > > First of all, f-spot should detect if sqlite/sqlite3 are installed and > present a nice button in the dialog "Please upgrade to new format" > instead of this scary error message. I have no interest in implemented something like that with such a bad code base for the application startup -> wishlist upstream. > Maybe make sqlite/sqlite3 recommends at least for a transition period. well that's only needed for older f-spot users (not sure when sqlite2 was still used,), 0.3.5 already used sqlite3 by default but didn't upgrade :), so I didn't make it recommends, as it only effects "old users". I might change his though. > > Second, the f-spot-sqlite-upgrade script should be fixed to be fool > proof. As it didn't have any man page, no --help option, I got no idea > what went wrong and how I should use this tool. I don't either how to use it, but I will look into that script and fix things that don't look fool proof to me, if you have specific suggests to make that script better, please tell me. > > Cheers, > Michael -- Regards, Mirco 'meebey' Bauer PGP-Key ID: 0xEEF946C8 FOSS Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.meebey.net/ PEAR Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pear.php.net/ Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
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