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

[Mark Fraser]

On 18 Oct 2015 02:33, "Everard Edwards" <holcus at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 19:55:35 +0200
>> From: Philip Johnsson <philip.johnsson at gmail.com>
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>> Subject: [Digikam-users] Question to users of my PPA for Ubuntu with
>>         Digikam packages about upcoming Digikam 5 beta
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>> Hi there users!
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>> 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.
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>> Any thoughts from you guys how you want it?
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>> Regards,
>>
>> Philip
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> My vote is for a separate PPA until Digikam 5 is final (just in case...),
then overwrite the current PPA.
>
> However, I appreciate you investing your time in doing this, so if that
is a pain, so long as we know you are overwriting Digikam 4, we can just
hold of on updates until final is out.
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> Thanks,
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> Everard

I agree with Everard, keep them separate for now at least until a stable
version of 5 is released.

There shouldn't be many changes to the Digikam 4 PPA as 4.14 is the last
version of 4.
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