Public bug reported: [Impact]
* digiKam on Kinetic got stuck in an awkward position due to the update to ffmpeg 5.0 which caused a complete FTBFS (LP: #1982775). To figure out what to do with this, Rik Mills, Steve Langasek, and I decided to go with git snapshots of the digiKam repository hoping that digiKam would release at least a beta release prior to the release of 22.10. That did not happen. * The version of digiKam stuck in 22.10's repositories is a git snapshot of that which was available as of 02 October 2022. This was noted in Ubuntu Studio's Release Notes for 22.10 [1] with the hope and expectation that an update to a beta release would happen. Note that Ubuntu Studio is the only flavor that seeds digiKam. * As of 11 December 2022, the digiKam developers released 8.0.0-beta1. [Test Case] * In 22.10 Kinetic Kudu: $ apt info digikam Package: digikam Version: 4:8.0.0~git20221002-0ubuntu1 ... * This should be updated to a version similar to that in Lunar, using my upload: $ apt info digikam Package: digikam Version: 4:8.0.0~+beta1-0ubuntu0.22.10.1 [What could go wrong] * This beta release contains numerous bugfixes, but no new major features. Information about these bugfixes can be found in the NEWS file [2] * There still be unknown bugs as this is a beta release, but since this is no longer a development snapshot, this is much better than what exists in our repository. * This is also tested in my personal PPA and builds quite well against Kinetic. [3] [Other Information] * As this is moving from a development snapshot to a beta release, I believe this justifies an exception from or meets the requirements of the microrelease policy. However, do note that the digiKam team decided to move their test suite into an entirely separate git repository which downloads at build time. I brought this problem to their attention [4] to which the reply was to simply disable the test suite. My reply to that was that it put us in a problematic position with an inability for our systems to run their tests. * Additionally, this should also justify a movement from beta to final release in the future should that happen significantly prior to 23.04's release, otherwise we should simply encourage users to upgrade to 23.04 for the final release of digiKam 8.0.0. [1] https://ubuntustudio.org/ubuntu-studio-22-10-release-notes/ [2] https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/raw/32899a31edfa223faf99b012c03190c5260efb82/NEWS [3] https://launchpad.net/~eeickmeyer/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+packages [4] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463439 ** Affects: digikam (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Fix Released ** Affects: digikam (Ubuntu Kinetic) Importance: Undecided Status: Triaged ** Affects: digikam (Ubuntu Lunar) Importance: Undecided Status: Fix Released ** Also affects: digikam (Ubuntu Kinetic) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: digikam (Ubuntu Lunar) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: digikam (Ubuntu Lunar) Status: New => Fix Released ** Changed in: digikam (Ubuntu Kinetic) Status: New => Triaged ** Description changed: [Impact] - * digiKam on Kinetic got stuck in an awkward position due to the update + * digiKam on Kinetic got stuck in an awkward position due to the update to ffmpeg 5.0 which caused a complete FTBFS (LP: #1982775). To figure out what to do with this, Rik Mills, Steve Langasek, and I decided to go with git snapshots of the digiKam repository hoping that digiKam would release at least a beta release prior to the release of 22.10. That did not happen. - * The version of digiKam stuck in 22.10's repositories is a git + * The version of digiKam stuck in 22.10's repositories is a git snapshot of that which was available as of 02 October 2022. This was noted in Ubuntu Studio's Release Notes for 22.10 [1] with the hope and expectation that an update to a beta release would happen. Note that Ubuntu Studio is the only flavor that seeds digiKam. - * As of 11 December 2022, the digiKam developers released 8.0.0-beta1. + * As of 11 December 2022, the digiKam developers released 8.0.0-beta1. [Test Case] - * In 22.10 Kinetic Kudu: + * In 22.10 Kinetic Kudu: $ apt info digikam Package: digikam Version: 4:8.0.0~git20221002-0ubuntu1 ... - * This should be updated to in Lunar, using my upload: + * This should be updated to a version similar to that in Lunar, using + my upload: $ apt info digikam Package: digikam Version: 4:8.0.0~+beta1-0ubuntu0.22.10.1 [What could go wrong] - * This beta release contains numerous bugfixes, but no new major + * This beta release contains numerous bugfixes, but no new major features. Information about these bugfixes can be found in the NEWS file [2] - * There still be unknown bugs as this is a beta release, but since this + * There still be unknown bugs as this is a beta release, but since this is no longer a development snapshot, this is much better than what exists in our repository. - * This is also tested in my personal PPA and builds quite well against + * This is also tested in my personal PPA and builds quite well against Kinetic. [3] [Other Information] - * As this is moving from a development snapshot to a beta release, I + * As this is moving from a development snapshot to a beta release, I believe this justifies an exception from or meets the requirements of the microrelease policy. However, do note that the digiKam team decided to move their test suite into an entirely separate git repository which downloads at build time. I brought this problem to their attention [4] to which the reply was to simply disable the test suite. My reply to that was that it put us in a problematic position with an inability for our systems to run their tests. - * Additionally, this should also justify a movement from beta to final + * Additionally, this should also justify a movement from beta to final release in the future should that happen significantly prior to 23.04's release, otherwise we should simply encourage users to upgrade to 23.04 for the final release of digiKam 8.0.0. [1] https://ubuntustudio.org/ubuntu-studio-22-10-release-notes/ [2] https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/raw/32899a31edfa223faf99b012c03190c5260efb82/NEWS [3] https://launchpad.net/~eeickmeyer/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+packages [4] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463439 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to digikam in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2000490 Title: [SRU] Update digikam to 8.0.0-beta1 on Kinetic To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/digikam/+bug/2000490/+subscriptions -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
