: From 1.3 -> 1.4

[Jeff Mitchell]

Something I find very disturbing is that the Debian 1.4.0 package is  
supposedly a snapshot of 1.4 beta3 code, or thereabouts.  I don't know  
if we have a Debian contact, but if that's true, it's very bad.

--Jeff

Quoting Andrew Turner <andrewturner512 at googlemail.com>:

> Actually, amaroK should handle the update perfectly well. There are
> only two reasons I know of that might cause problems:
>
> 1) amaroK 1.4.0 had a bug that caused it to not realise the old DB
> existed causing it to fail to upgrade. This is has been fixed in
> 1.4.0a, which is available for all major distributions, except Debian
> for some reason.
>
> 2) Using an external DB (eg MySQL, PostgreSQL ) without granting all
> the required permissions (such as the ability to run ALTER) would make
> amaroK unable to upgrade the DB.
>
> Andrew
>
> On 26/05/06, Yrjö Hatakka <yka at mbnet.fi> wrote:
>> This is an enquiry e-mail via http://amarok.kde.org from:
>> Yrjö Hatakka <yka at mbnet.fi>
>>
>> Hard Rock Hallelujah
>>
>> It would be nice to have easily usable scripts with Amarok 1.4 that  
>>  enables the migration from old 1.3 statistics to 1.4, as there are  
>>  difffences with database structures between versions.
>>
>> yka
>>
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