[Bug 384278] Re: Jaunty ships with libraries too old for digikam-kde4

[Harald Sitter]

Well, yeah, no.

libkdcraw got different API and ABI versions, API versions 0.4.2 is
really ABI version 7.0.0  (that is what we got in Jaunty). obviously
digikam only spits out the API version with no regards to the ABI, and
what Gilles calls 0.7.2 is really 0.4.2, since there never was a 0.7.2
(KDE 4.2.0 came with 0.4.2/7.0.0, and KDE got a no-API-no-ABI breakage
policy, so 0.4.2/7.0.0 will be carried throughout KDE 4.2 ... KDE 4.3 on
the other hand will be 0.5.0/7.1.0)

Also, if I am not mistaken we don't link libkdcraw nor digikam against
an independent libraw (i.e. another one than the one in kdegraphics), so
there is no way you can update either of them due to the no-API-no-ABI-
breakage policy from KDE mentioned earlier.  Well, you would need to
update to KDE trunk or KDE 4.3 beta, which then again means rebuild
digikam ... so this hardly can be the solution here.

So really, we can't do anything about it, so would no other distribution
(which by the way should be affected as well, because we don't apply any
patches on lib(kdc)raw), so unless Gilles is wrong and the crash is not
happening in libraw itself, the issue remains very annoying and awful,
but unfixable (at least untill someone can proof that this issue is
really in libraw and find out how to fix it). Otherwise it should
autoresolve with an upgrade to KDE 4.3.

I recommend you bounce back to Gilles for now :) The bug will be marked
invalid, but really only because we don't have enough information to
track the crash location nor to fix it at this point. Please reopen the
bug report if you get further information or when you and Gilles should
fail to trace the issue any further, we'll then take another look at it.

** Changed in: digikam (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Jaunty ships with libraries too old for digikam-kde4
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