On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 16:02:04 +0200 Germano Massullo <germano.massullo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The following message concerns darktable major update 2.x (actually on > EPEL7 = 1.6.x) > My interpretation of EPEL packaging guidelines [1] is that the major > update darktable 2.x should be pushed as a darktable2 package [2]. In some cases yeah. > Moreover, once you read XML files (generated by darktable) of photos > using darktable 2.x, you will not be any longer able to use them with > darktable 1.6.x > Kalev Lember said [3] about [1]: > ====== > I think this applies mostly to libraries in order to keep ABI/API > stable in EPEL. I don't think the policy is meant to keep leaf > desktop apps on old, unsupported versions forever. > ====== > Since Kalev is a reliable member of the community, I want to listen to > his suggestion, but since I am not 100% sure, I would like to ask for > a feedback from EPEL mailing list members. Well, we need more information (or at least I do): * Is 1.x still supported by upstream? * is 1.x still supported by anyone else (rhel, other lts distros, people you could work with on backporting fixes). * Are there any known 1.x security issues? * Is the upgrade from 1.x to 2.x transparent for the user? ie, would they have to do any manual steps to move config? or is that all done by the application? * Is the "user experence" different between 1.x and 2.x? kevin
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