digiKam version 8.2 missing in Tumbleweed

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Anyone any idea why digiKam has not been updated to version 8.2 more than 6 weeks after release? I did a search in Bugzilla but did not recognize anything relevant.

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Because the maintainer, who is likely a volunteer, is busy with something in their life? Perhaps it’s failing openQA checks. No idea.

It just looks like nobody has gotten around to submitting it for update. I’m sure they would welcome an SR doing so.

3

Welcome to the forum !! :+1:

You do have the option to run the Discover app and get digiKam 8.2, in the form of a Flatpak
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Or, looking at the change log in the Factory Build, they’re trying to remove the current dependency which the Digikam package has with Akonadi – currently, when you call digiKam with a user who neither needs nor uses the KDE Plasma PIM, akonadi is executed and a basic Kontact PIM configuration is placed in ‘~/.config/’ plus the associated directories and files in ‘~/.local/share/’.

  • There’s an ominous change to the CMake files which may well have an influence on the delay getting the thing packaged …
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Okay, thanks for the info.

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Today, for Leap 15.5, digiKam version 8.2.0 is available form the “KDE: Extra” repository.
<https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_Leap_15.5/>

And, there’s this –

 > rpm --query --changelog digikam | head -30
* Mo Jan 15 2024 Wolfgang Bauer <wbauer1@a1.net>
- Update to 8.2.0:
  https://www.digikam.org/news/2023-12-03-8.2.0_release_announcement/
- Drop 0001-Use-FindLibExiv2.cmake-from-ECM.patch, no longer
  necessary
- Rebase 0001-Look-for-each-akonadi-component-separately.patch

* Fr Dez 15 2023 Christophe Marin <christophe@krop.fr>
- Require extra-cmake-modules at build time

* Di Nov 14 2023 Christophe Marin <christophe@krop.fr>
- Add patch to detect and use libexiv2 0.28.1
  * 0001-Use-FindLibExiv2.cmake-from-ECM.patch

* Sa Aug 26 2023 Christophe Marin <christophe@krop.fr>
- Adapt once again to the build system changes in akonadi*
  packages
- Add patch:
  * 0001-Look-for-each-akonadi-component-separately.patch

* Mi Aug 09 2023 Christophe Marin <christophe@krop.fr>
- Add the optional libpulse dependency (boo#1210750)

* Fr Jul 28 2023 Paolo Stivanin <info@paolostivanin.com>
- Update to 8.1.0:
  https://www.digikam.org/news/2023-07-09-8.1.0_release_announcement/
- Drop patch, merged upstream:
  * 0001-fix-broken-compilation-with-Exiv2-0.28-missing-heade.patch

And, for the user who neither needs nor uses the KDE Plasma PIM – only digiKam plus Microsoft in a VM – there ain’t no –

  • “akonadi*” directories in ‘~/.local/share/’ …
  • “mail” directories in ‘~/.local/share/’ …
  • “korganizer” directories anywhere in ‘~/.local/share/’ …
  • “akonadi” anything in ‘~/.config/’
  • “mail” anything in ‘~/.config/’
  • “organizer” anything in ‘~/.config/’

IMNSHO – It was worth waiting for the packaging needed for this digiKam version … :smiling_imp: