I just built current master on Ubuntu 20.04 with cmake 3.16.1, without any problems.
On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 1:21 PM Mica Semrick <m...@silentumbrella.com> wrote: > Can you not just be polite though? Do we want the default reply here to be > "gruff with loosely associated facts?" > > Essentially the question of "what happened to xxx package" was met with a > multi paragraph rant about LTS and Ubuntu and whatever. It didn't provide > the answer but instead veered off on it's own direction. > > Not a great way to start the new year, if I'm honest. > > -m > > On January 4, 2023 9:57:39 AM PST, "ja...@activimetrics.com" < > ja...@activimetrics.com> wrote: >> >> For what its worth, I read Matthias Andree's responses as perfectly >> reasonable. Yes the words were not exceedingly polite, but the gruffness >> was backed with explanation. I certainly did not read any ad hominem >> attacks. >> >> I was always of the opinion that if you stick with an LTS version of a >> distro, you are stuck with *exactly* what the distro decides is worthy >> of LTS support. >> >> Especially in this new world of flatpaks. >> >> For the record, I run slackware since forever, so building code from >> source as a package is something I have to do now and then. I would never >> dream of asking the darktable devs to maintain a slackware SlackBuild, let >> alone an installable package. >> >> And when Mr. Volkerding and the inner slackware cabal decide that it is >> time to release a new version, one upgrades shortly thereafter. >> >> Regards, and back to lurking, >> >> James >> >> On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 07:43:10AM -0800, Mica Semrick wrote: >> >> You're making a lot of assumptions here. Seems like you have some deeper >> issue than someone asking a simple question about support. Maybe a break >> from the computer is in order. >> >> Happy new year -m >> >> On January 4, 2023 7:33:59 AM PST, Matthias Andree matthias.and...@gmx.de >> wrote: >Am 04.01.23 um 15:58 schrieb Mica Semrick: >> This answer is a bit >> rude and doesn't answer the original query. > >It may be rude if you >> consider "who cares" rude, and prevents people >from wasting their time >> while pointing out the actual issue, which is >"old distro" which is too >> old to build darktable 4.2. > >> There is an unmet dependency in Ubuntu >> 20.04 and the latest release >> can no longer be built. See >> >> https://discuss.pixls.us/t/what-happened-with-the-obs-builds/33588/2?u=darix >> for >> >> more information. > >Thanks for mass-confirming what I was writing. > >> >And scared users in that thread posted in November 2022, 7 months after >> >release, that they still considered Ubuntu "new", when 22.04.1 was out >> >and from-LTS-to-next-LTS upgrades had been enabled. Exactly the kind of >> >support open-source maintainers want to be distracted with. I haven't >> >even looked whether the OBS people are the same as the darktable people, >> >but you'd think it best to move things forward rather than tying them up >> >in the past. > >The thing is you can't have the cake and eat it, so >> everyone please stop >pretending they could. > >Ubuntu 20.04 (code-named >> focal fossa) shipped darktable 3.0, and >darktable being in the "universe" >> community-unmaintained package set... >being stuck with older darktable is >> a choice that people made by NOT >upgrading their Ubuntu LTS in the past >> three months. > >> https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=focal&searchon=names&keywords=darktable >> > >And it's also either you choose a Ubuntu LTS distro and live with >> >whatever unmaintained ("universe") package came with it, and be stuck >> >with it, or you pick something that installs an app and all its distro >> >deps redundantly in a distro (snap or flatpack, if available) with all >> >the drawbacks of its isolation and bulk, or you need to move to a distro >> >that is up to speed if your interest is "new software" and integrates >> >such quickly. Rolling or frequent releases and distros exist, but that's >> >not Ubuntu LTS, and possibly no Debian-based distro at all. > >Having said >> that, Fedora 37 or FreeBSD 13.1 built darktable 4.2 nicely >for me. > >I >> wonder why all the world can expect everyone to maintain every new >package >> for their museum piece of desktop distro install and NOT be >considered >> rude. Expecting someone to maintain software or packages >thereof for older >> distros, on a voluntary basis, free of charge, is what >I consider egoistic >> and rude. It is an enormous waste of resources. > > >> >___________________________________________________________________________ >> >darktable developer mailing list >to unsubscribe send a mail to >> darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > >> ------------------------------ >> >> darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to >> darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org >> >> > ___________________________________________________________________________ > darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to > darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > ___________________________________________________________________________ darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
