[Digikam-users] Question to users of my PPA for Ubuntu with Digikam packages about upcoming Digikam 5 beta

Gilles Caulier caulier.gilles at gmail.com
Sat Oct 17 19:12:26 BST 2015


2015-10-17 19:55 GMT+02:00 Philip Johnsson <philip.johnsson at gmail.com>:

> Hi there users!
>
> I have a question about how you guys that use my PPA with Digikam packages
> for Ubuntu want to deal with the upcoming release of Digikam 5 beta. Do you
> want me to just override the Digikam 4 (stable release) with beta, RC and
> final releases rolleing releases of Digikam 5 or do you guys want a
> separate PPA just for the beta och RC Digikam release and then release
> Digikam 5 in the "extra" PPA when it's final?
>
> I haven't played around building Digikam 5 that much yet but I don't think
> I will provide so both Digikam 4 and Digikam 5 will be installed separately
> on the same system. Not sure how interchangeable the database is back and
> forth between the releases anyway. I think that will mean that if you
> choose to try digikam 5 beta it will uninstall the digikam 4 packages.
>

digiKam 4 and 5 are fully compatible about the database. Nothing has
changed in this section.

I will publish a blog post when tarball will be ready this week end, where
a full description of main changes/features/fixes.

Gilles Caulier
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