On 09/09/11 05:43 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Dariusz J. Garbowski wrote: >> Is there a chance for Digikam 2 being build for Fedora 14? > > The problem is that Digikam 2.x (there's 2.1.0 out now) requires versions of > the kdegraphics libs which are only in 4.7.x, not 4.6.x. Obviously, we have > no plans to upgrade Fedora 14 to KDE SC 4.7 (we even decided against pushing > 4.7 to Fedora 15). Digikam 2.x does ship bundled copies of those libraries > (the infamous "Digikam SC"), but in Fedora, bundled libraries are not > allowed by policy (and I also personally find it less than helpful to have 2 > versions of those libraries around). > > I am planning to backport the new kdegraphics libraries for Fedora 15 so we > can upgrade Digikam (but I will have to convince Rex and others before doing > it, I don't want to do this over their heads), but for Fedora 14, I'm not so > sure, considering that it's nearing its end of life. > > So I have to say, probably not, sorry. :-( Thanks for detailed answer. I was hoping this might just be the case of building the package but the case being as it is I see why it's a pain to do staying compliant with Fedora policies. Regards, Dariusz _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
