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

[Philip Johnsson]

Mick, Is Mint 17 Cinnamon the LTS release? I think LTS might have that
priority lock to keep it to use sources marked as stable. Again, I'm not a
specialist on Linux Mint.

/Philip

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 10:52 PM, Mick Sulley <mick at sulley.info> wrote:

>  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> 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> 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> 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>:
>>>>
>>>>>  On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 15:27:07 +0200
>>>>> Philip Johnsson <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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>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> http://www.sritch.com
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