Digikam - bad updates

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On my 13.1/KDE 4.12.0 system, I received two Digikam updates today (Jan 14, 2014) from the KDE 4.12 Extras repo.
The first download, version 3.5.0-2.14 resulted in broken Digikam Editor - most menues are blank or missing key sub-menu items…
Later in the day, received ver 3.5.0-2.15, which did not seem to fix anything.

Not sure what is going on, but I reverted to Digikam 3.5.0-4.1 from the OSS repo and all seems back to normal, or should I limit that to the editor seems to be functioning again.

Version of packages between the OSS and Upstream repos is really getting confusing.

I don’t know if I moved to a later build or an earlier build, but for the moment , it works better.

YRMV

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Upon further use of version 3.5.0-4.1, I find the resize tool (and others) missing from the main window.

I have already asked for how-to-fix guidance on the Digikam forum.

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It would appear that updated digikam packages built for KDE4.12.1 made it to the KDE upstream Extras repo before the KDE 4.12.1 load to the upstream repo.

If I had started digikam from the CLI, I would have seen the errors stream by.

Now that I am running KDE 4.12.1, digikam is all well again.