On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 16:02:04 +0200
Germano Massullo <germano.massullo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The following message concerns darktable major update 2.x (actually
on
EPEL7 = 1.6.x)
My interpretation of EPEL packaging guidelines [1] is that the major
update darktable 2.x should be pushed as a darktable2 package [2].
In some cases yeah.
Moreover, once you read XML files (generated by darktable) of photos
using darktable 2.x, you will not be any longer able to use them with
darktable 1.6.x
Kalev Lember said [3] about [1]:
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I think this applies mostly to libraries in order to keep ABI/API
stable in EPEL. I don't think the policy is meant to keep leaf
desktop apps on old, unsupported versions forever.
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Since Kalev is a reliable member of the community, I want to listen to
his suggestion, but since I am not 100% sure, I would like to ask for
a feedback from EPEL mailing list members.
Well, we need more information (or at least I do):
* Is 1.x still supported by upstream?
* is 1.x still supported by anyone else (rhel, other lts distros,
people you could work with on backporting fixes).
* Are there any known 1.x security issues?
* Is the upgrade from 1.x to 2.x transparent for the user? ie, would
they have to do any manual steps to move config? or is that all done
by the application?
* Is the "user experence" different between 1.x and 2.x?
kevin