FreeBSD Port: graphics/digikam

[Tobias C. Berner]

Hi Holger

Sorry for the breakage. Due to a lack of free time, I could not yet
investigate the breakage.I will, as soon as I can :)

The quarterly branch gives you no guarantees at all -- it is cut at a given
time, and if you are lucky the tree was in a good state at the time.
Afterwards it just mostly gets older :D -- so there is no process of
choosing "stable" staff for the quarterly (so it's purely timing based --
quarterly, literally).

I think this time it was just bad luck, I assume, I did some testing and
found it working, but apparently it wasn't, or I didn't  :)  -- totally my
bad here.

I hope to have time to fix it by this or the next weekend -- no promises,
patches are welcome :D.

If you really require it to be working right now, you can just grab the
port from the revision prior to its upgrade and built the old one -- that
should work.


mfg Tobias


On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 at 07:29, Holger Wagemann <Holger.Wagemann at posteo.de>
wrote:

> Dear maintainer,
>
> I'm a desktop user, like the work of kde-freebsd team to have a current
> plasma5 desktop and other applications like digikam.
>
> I use pkg and latest stuff, sometimes head branch and ports and apart from
> some instabilities, which were fixed in the past in a short time, I'm
> satisfied with combination of FreeBSD and plasma5 and further desktop stuff.
>
> After switching from digikam 6.0.0 to a newer version some weeks ago in
> "latest" this software is broken, it starts reproducible with a segfault.
> This bug is reported since 2019-09-10.
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=240466
>
> Okay, in quarterly branch 2019Q3 there was digikam in version 6.0.0 and
> this version works. So some days ago I've switched from head to quarterly,
> to reduce such issues.
>
> But yesterday you switched to new quarterly branch 2019Q4 and with a pkg
> upgrade I get new binaries, also digikam, and now in version 6.3.0. And it
> starts with a segfault.
>
> My question: Why putting broken stuff from head in a new quarterly branch?
> I thought, that quarterly protects user from such issues and only working
> stuff from head was putting into a new quarterly branch (like manjaro:
> stuff from testing repo was putting to stable repo, when it is stable). But
> it seems, that a new quartely branch only get a snapshot of binaries from
> head without any inspection, if this stuff works or not.
>
> What can I do to get a working version of digikam in combination with
> FreeBSD?
>
> And how can I avoid such issues in the future? Still using quarterly seems
> not to be enough. Please keep in mind, that I'm a user and not a developer.
>
> Kind regards
>   Holger
>
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