[Digikam-users] Question to users of my PPA with Digikam for Ubuntu.

[Mick Sulley]

I run the PPA on Mint 17 Cinnamon and it works fine, I did not have to 
change any priority.  I am no expert but if there is anything I can test 
to help you please let me know.

Cheers
Mick

On 29/06/15 19:57, Philip Johnsson wrote:
> Antonio,
>
> Yes you can but that is a Linux Mint problem and not a Ubuntu problem. 
> Linux Mint use Pin-Priority to lock out what it considers unstable or 
> experimental packages sources. This is used in Debian too to hold back 
> packages in stable from installing packages from Debian unstable or 
> experimental. Ubuntu work a bit different with its release cycles. Why 
> Linux Mint do as it does I don't know as it's based on Ubuntu 
> otherwise and I'm not that used to changing Pin-Priority and Launchpad 
> sources are listed as 500.
>
> I haven't tried it as I don't have to but try to install digikam with 
> apt-get and the -t unstable parameter; "sudo apt-get -t unstable 
> install digikam". That might work on Linux Mint and works on Debian if 
> you want install some special package from Debian unstable on Debian 
> stable and dependecies. If that doesn't work I think you have to ask 
> in the Linux Mint community how they handled package sources with 
> higher Pin-Priority.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Philip
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Antonio Trincone 
> <antonio.trincone at gmail.com <mailto:antonio.trincone at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I would take advantage of this topic for a question out of it,
>     related to the issue I am having (and it seems to be general)
>     using your PPA in Mint 17.1 KDE version. It seems that for a
>     priority question (sorry for my non technical words) your PPA is
>     not used instead of repository version which is now 4.0.0. Could
>     it be safe the use of some methods I found online to force the
>     system to use your PPA. Have you any other simpler suggestion?
>     Many thanks in advance for possible asnwer and sorry for the
>     intrusion.
>     Antonio
>
>     Il giorno lun 29 giu 2015 alle ore 18:46 Philip Johnsson
>     <philip.johnsson at gmail.com <mailto:philip.johnsson at gmail.com>> ha
>     scritto:
>
>         I just uploaded updated versions of exiv2, lensfun and libraw
>         to at the moment latest tarball releases and rebuild of
>         digikam for them for (*)ubuntu 14.10 (utopic) to my PPA.
>         trusty and vivid get the same kind of updates later tonight.
>         Shouldn't be any problem but feel free to report back to me if
>         there would be any...
>
>         /Philip
>
>         On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Gilles Caulier
>         <caulier.gilles at gmail.com <mailto:caulier.gilles at gmail.com>>
>         wrote:
>
>             Note :Exiv2 update to 0.25 is VERY important due to a huge
>             list of bugfixes, especially about video files support.
>
>             Exiv2 0.24 is not a TLS version and the problem is the
>             delay between version. 0.24 to 0.25 => 1,5 y
>
>             I hope to see more Exiv2 releases in the future. 2/3 month
>             with bugfixes will be the best. Don't forget that Exiv2 is
>             used everywhere in digiKam. It's a critical dependency.
>
>             Gilles Caulier
>
>             2015-06-28 18:54 GMT+02:00 Syv Ritch <syv at sritch.com
>             <mailto:syv at sritch.com>>:
>
>                 On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 15:27:07 +0200
>                 Philip Johnsson <philip.johnsson at gmail.com
>                 <mailto:philip.johnsson at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>                 > I have question for users of my PPA with Digikam packages for
>                 > Ubuntu (I have about 2000 users that download my
>                 Digikam packages
>                 > for the moment). Would you like the PPA to stay as
>                 pure with the
>                 > official Ubuntu packages for each Ubuntu release as
>                 possible and
>                 > mostly update Digikam packages. For stability,
>                 security or any
>                 > other reason or do you want as updated dependency
>                 packages as
>                 > possible?
>
>                 1. Thanks, I really appreciate your time and hard work
>                 spent on it.
>                 2. Personally, I have had an 'interruption' in my
>                 current use DK
>                 because libraw in Ubuntu is so old and doesn't support
>                 newer cameras
>                 especially the X-Trans from Fuji.
>
>                 I would prefer: "updated dependency packages as possible"
>
>                 Thank you
>
>
>
>
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