[Pkg-phototools-devel] Upgrading ligbphoto2-dev on a Pi??

[wferi at niif.hu]

Greig Sheridan <gs at gisyd.com> writes:

> wferi wrote:
>
>> The libgphoto2 Debian package has a pretty standard build procedure,
>> but you probably lack the build environment for that.
>
> Sounds like it's complicated? If I can't cajole my install script into
> doing the build natively on a Pi then yeah, I'm going to need to rely
> on people like yourselves to keep it updated (for which I thank you).

If the memory isn't too tight, it should be possible to rebuild
natively.

>> It's actively maintained in Debian, but you apparently use the
>> version released in buster.
>
> I've had a look around but I can only see the one release each for
> buster and stretch (unless previous ones have been removed)? As I
> understand it libgphoto gets a new release multiple times a year, but
> its 'development files' version is only updated with each major Debian
> release. If it only gets an update with each major o/s release it
> means I'm going to find myself in this same situation in a year or so.
> Or am I missing something again?

Debian "unstable" get more or less regular uploads when new upstream
versions are released.  These are migrated to "testing" a couple of days
later (typically).  A new Debian release means that "testing" is renamed
to "stable", so the version in the Debian stable release is frozen.
Bullseye is the current "stable", buster is "oldstable", stretch is
"oldoldstable", and so on.  So yes, stable releases get outdated
eventually.  See https://backports.debian.org/ for a possible solution.
-- 
Regards,
Feri