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
