Bug#1004769: Video not handled anymore for now
On Sunday, July 17, 2022 4:09:20 A.M. CDT you wrote: > Le 16/07/2022 à 18:50, Steven Robbins a écrit : > > I would say that there may well be others in your situation so if you do > > find a method please report back to this bug. > >For my personnal use, until upstream provides a correct fix, I recompile > digikam 7.7.0-1 (-2 was not pushed in the git ;-) ) Now pushed, thanks! -Steve signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Bug#1004769: Video not handled anymore for now
Le 16/07/2022 à 18:50, Steven Robbins a écrit : I would say that there may well be others in your situation so if you do find a method please report back to this bug. For my personnal use, until upstream provides a correct fix, I recompile digikam 7.7.0-1 (-2 was not pushed in the git ;-) ) with devel packages of ffmpeg4 (from stable) installed (other build dependencies come from unstable) [I only revert the commit that disable video and add a changelog entry]. The result is packages with video support, but using ffmpeg from stable (version 4). So, it is ok for my personnal use (but unsuitable for official Debian). If others are interested, you can look here: http://people.debian.org/~vdanjean/debian/pool/main/d/digikam/ Note: no support is provided. So particular tests have been done, ... Regards, Vincent
Bug#1004769: Video not handled anymore for now
Le 16/07/2022 à 18:50, Steven Robbins a écrit : Thank you for the suggestion. I was completely unaware of "apt-listbugs". I have just re-titled and changed the severity of this bug. Great, it can help other users to avoid the upgrade if they want to. Due to the large dependencies, it is probably very difficult to downgrade digikam to a version with video support once 4:7.7.0-1 is installed. I did not try for now. I haven't tried either, so I don't know. Maybe one can just pull the packages from the last stable release? Build the 7.6 source package ? I would say that there may well be others in your situation so if you do find a method please report back to this bug. Reading bug reports (in particular [1] and [2]), the root cause comes from the ffmpeg transition in Debian. Trying to reverse this would be very difficult leading to lots of downgrade of other packages (going back to stable versions). I'm also afraid that the older digikam would run with a upgraded database. I'm not sure this won't corrupt some internal tables... If I've time, I would probably try to build local ffmpeg4 packages (or to install previous one if they are coinstallable) and rebuild digikam with ffmpeg4. Of cause, this would be a local workaround, not something sutable for Debian. Thanks for your work on digikam packaging Vincent [1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453840 [2] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448681
Bug#1004769: Video not handled anymore for now
On Friday, July 15, 2022 6:27:51 P.M. CDT you wrote: >Hi, > >This bug is rather anoying as I'm using digikam to manage my video. I agree it is annoying. I feel the same pain. Given the hard-transition of ffmpeg [1], it is not possible to build with video in unstable today. Digikam was temporarily removed from Debian and the only way to re-introduce it is to not use ffmpeg at all which has the serious side effect to drop video. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1004831 > The low severity (and the title of the bug) does not allow one to stop > the upgrade with apt-listbugs. In my opinion, this bug is at lease > important (to be seen by apt-listbugs) and its title should reflect > that video is not handle by digikam for now (or a new bug can be > created and blocked by this one) Thank you for the suggestion. I was completely unaware of "apt-listbugs". I have just re-titled and changed the severity of this bug. The manpage for apt-listbugs says it displays serious and above by default. Therefore, I have made it 'serious' according to the criteria "in the package maintainer's or release manager's opinion, makes the package unsuitable for release". >Due to the large dependencies, it is probably very difficult to > downgrade digikam to a version with video support once 4:7.7.0-1 > is installed. I did not try for now. I haven't tried either, so I don't know. Maybe one can just pull the packages from the last stable release? Build the 7.6 source package ? I would say that there may well be others in your situation so if you do find a method please report back to this bug. > I hope video will be soon back. Upstream is certainly aware of the issue and work is underway to migrate to the newer ffmpeg. I am monitoring the upstream mailing list and sources. Based on what I see at present, I'm not optimistic for the short term, so if you're using testing or unstable you may want to look into the downgrade option. I am more hopeful that things will be resolved in time for the next Debian release. Best, -Steve
Bug#1004769: Video not handled anymore for now
Hi, This bug is rather anoying as I'm using digikam to manage my video. The low severity (and the title of the bug) does not allow one to stop the upgrade with apt-listbugs. In my opinion, this bug is at lease important (to be seen by apt-listbugs) and its title should reflect that video is not handle by digikam for now (or a new bug can be created and blocked by this one) Due to the large dependencies, it is probably very difficult to downgrade digikam to a version with video support once 4:7.7.0-1 is installed. I did not try for now. I hope video will be soon back. Regards, Vincent
