[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#689047: digikam: Maintainer deliberately uploaded a package in experimental that will not be installable for months

[Eric Valette]

On 29/09/2012 01:03, Mark Purcell wrote:

> digikam/experimental is installable now (see below), but it does conflict with
> kdegraphics/unstable.  It installs fine and is a fully usable package (contary
> to your assertions), and some users wish to utilise the latest upstream
> release, which is why I have uploaded to experimental.

For me this mean its not acceptable as anyone using kde will need 
kdegraphics/unstable!!

> However, you are correct that this is not an acceptable long terms solution
> and is a release critical bug and should not be brought into unstable, hence
> why it is uploaded to experimental.

I disagree. You should upload onlt thinks taht are installable, that 
means you should provide also the kde 4.10 packages!

> Upstream has a peculiar approach where
> they start utilising newer components of kdegraphics.  Again you are correct
> this is not the debian way and is not a sensible approach to packaging.  We
> also had exactly the same issue with the release of digikam/2.0 which was
> using unreleased features from kdegraphics/4.7.  The workaround we used then,
> and are using now is to make the bleeding edge package available via
> experimenal, whilst maintaining the fully compatible package via unstable.

At that time 4.7 was already available via the kde/qt repository if I 
remember... This is not the case for 4.10 AFAICT.

> 1.	Bleeding edge digikam/3.0.  In which case they can install via
> experimental but cannot utilise kdegraphics/4.8.

This is not a solution!

--eric