[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#952426: digikam: digkam experimental not correctly instalable

[Agustin Martin]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 01:07:40PM +0100, Eric Valette wrote:
> On 24/02/2020 12:57, Agustin Martin wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > According to https://packages.debian.org/source/experimental/hdf5 there is a
> > new "libhdf5-hl-100" package in experimental. Looking into it, seems that
> > libhdf5_serial_hl.so.100 has been moved there, so installing that new package
> > should help in experimental. I still wonder what is pulling it during build.
> 
> 
> Except that if you llok at the beginning of the bug report it cannot be
> installed in conjunction with digikam. That why I opened this new bug.

Sorry, I missed that,

I may be wrong, but after a quick glance, that problem in experimental
seems likely related to the hdf5 transition to the new schema, not to
digikam itself.

IMHO libhdf5-103 should not have been dropped in experimental. It should
have instead become a transitional package depending on packages with its
previous contents, those having properly versioned breaks. That would make
the system work and allow dependencies to be upgraded later (although this
last should not be done in experimental). This addresses your 2) and 3)
points in your reply to Steve,

> As other have pointed out, it works but remains
> ...
>	2) If I do and experimental update it start failing again,
>	3) as soon as libhdf-103 hits unstable, the problem will reappear,

There is still the problem of the undeclared digikam dependency on the
hdf5 stuff.

Regards,

-- 
Agustin