Hi Holger Sorry for the breakage. Due to a lack of free time, I could not yet investigate the breakage.I will, as soon as I can :)
The quarterly branch gives you no guarantees at all -- it is cut at a given time, and if you are lucky the tree was in a good state at the time. Afterwards it just mostly gets older :D -- so there is no process of choosing "stable" staff for the quarterly (so it's purely timing based -- quarterly, literally). I think this time it was just bad luck, I assume, I did some testing and found it working, but apparently it wasn't, or I didn't :) -- totally my bad here. I hope to have time to fix it by this or the next weekend -- no promises, patches are welcome :D. If you really require it to be working right now, you can just grab the port from the revision prior to its upgrade and built the old one -- that should work. mfg Tobias On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 at 07:29, Holger Wagemann <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear maintainer, > > I'm a desktop user, like the work of kde-freebsd team to have a current > plasma5 desktop and other applications like digikam. > > I use pkg and latest stuff, sometimes head branch and ports and apart from > some instabilities, which were fixed in the past in a short time, I'm > satisfied with combination of FreeBSD and plasma5 and further desktop stuff. > > After switching from digikam 6.0.0 to a newer version some weeks ago in > "latest" this software is broken, it starts reproducible with a segfault. > This bug is reported since 2019-09-10. > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=240466 > > Okay, in quarterly branch 2019Q3 there was digikam in version 6.0.0 and > this version works. So some days ago I've switched from head to quarterly, > to reduce such issues. > > But yesterday you switched to new quarterly branch 2019Q4 and with a pkg > upgrade I get new binaries, also digikam, and now in version 6.3.0. And it > starts with a segfault. > > My question: Why putting broken stuff from head in a new quarterly branch? > I thought, that quarterly protects user from such issues and only working > stuff from head was putting into a new quarterly branch (like manjaro: > stuff from testing repo was putting to stable repo, when it is stable). But > it seems, that a new quartely branch only get a snapshot of binaries from > head without any inspection, if this stuff works or not. > > What can I do to get a working version of digikam in combination with > FreeBSD? > > And how can I avoid such issues in the future? Still using quarterly seems > not to be enough. Please keep in mind, that I'm a user and not a developer. > > Kind regards > Holger >
