[digiKam-users] Printing - I need help!

[Chris Green]

HaJo Schatz <hajo at hajo.net> wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 4:03 AM Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
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> > Why is it that some programs manage to keep the major repositories
> > reasonably up to date and others don't?
> >
> 
> Because some programs have volunteer contributors that run a certain distro
> and commit their time to keep the program updated for that distro - and
> others don't. I'm very happy on Fedora with the way digikam keeps up2date.
> 
> If for your distro digikam is outdated, you could of course always download
> the source, compile it and possibly even look into creating a native
> package and submitting it for the community of your chosen distro. At the
> end this is what Linux is all about; it's not a commercial undertaking but
> a community effort which gets better the more volunteer contributors there
> are. If you expect perfect spoon-feeding, then maybe a commercial platform
> is the better solution for your needs?
> 
The issue is more subtle than that.  :-)

I agree wholly with your sentiments above and there are places where I
do contribute, however Digikam is a bit out of my 'spectrum' being KDE
based (among other things).

The thing I find surprising is that some (and it's not just Digikam)
software seems to get *very* left behind whereas others don't.
Another case in point is Arduino which is *years* behind on Ubuntu.

There are issues with the Ubuntu release cycle which freezes software
versions within a particular release, e.g. once Digikam 4.12 was in
Ubuntu 16.04 then that's it for the whole life of Ubuntu 16.04.  For
this reason I use PPAs for some software which is useful/important for
me to keep up to date.  E.g. I use the syncthing PPA to keep my
various (not always the same version of [x]ubuntu) systems in step
which is important for software like syncthing.

As a matter of interest was Digikam 4.12 reasonably current back in
early 2016 when Ubuntu 16.04 would have been frozen?


> Oh, and, thank you very much digikam developer team for all your massive
> efforts in development and also quick & continuous support here on the
> list! Highly appreciated since many years :)
> 
Absolutely!

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Chris Green
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