[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#1004769: Video not handled anymore for now

[Steven Robbins]

On Friday, July 15, 2022 6:27:51 P.M. CDT you wrote:
>    Hi,
> 
>    This bug is rather anoying as I'm using digikam to manage my video.

I agree it is annoying.  I feel the same pain.

Given the hard-transition of ffmpeg [1], it is not possible to build with video 
in unstable today.  Digikam was temporarily removed from Debian and the only 
way to re-introduce it is to not use ffmpeg at all which has the serious side 
effect to drop video.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1004831


> The low severity (and the title of the bug) does not allow one to stop
> the upgrade with apt-listbugs. In my opinion, this bug is at lease
> important (to be seen by apt-listbugs) and its title should reflect
> that video is not handle by digikam for now (or a new bug can be
> created and blocked by this one)

Thank you for the suggestion.  I was completely unaware of "apt-listbugs".  

I have just re-titled and changed the severity of this bug.  

The manpage for apt-listbugs says it displays serious and above by default.  
Therefore, I have made it 'serious' according to the criteria "in the package 
maintainer's or release manager's opinion, makes the package unsuitable for 
release".

>    Due to the large dependencies, it is probably very difficult to
> downgrade digikam to a version with video support once 4:7.7.0-1
> is installed. I did not try for now.

I haven't tried either, so I don't know.  Maybe one can just pull the packages 
from the last stable release?  Build the 7.6 source package ?

I would say that there may well be others in your situation so if you do find a 
method please report back to this bug.  

> I hope video will be soon back.

Upstream is certainly aware of the issue and work is underway to migrate to 
the newer ffmpeg.  I am monitoring the upstream mailing list and sources.  
Based on what I see at present, I'm not optimistic for the short term, so if 
you're using testing or unstable you may want to  look into the downgrade 
option.

I am more hopeful that things will be resolved in time for the next Debian 
release. 

Best,
-Steve