libkipi5 replacing libkipi0 (removing digikam!)

[P Kapat]

On 6/24/08, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> P Kapat wrote:
>
>  > Hi,
>  > A recent update in adept shows that kdegraphics-kde4 and gwenview-kde4
>  > depend on libkipi5 which conflicts (and replaces) libkipi0. As a
>  > result of this upgrade (not yet done) it shows that libkipi0, digikam,
>  > gwenview (among few others) are to be rmoved.
>  >
>  > What happened to the concept of KDE3 and KDE4 coexisting harmoniously?
>  > Here is the sources.list:
>  >
>  > deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu hardy main
>  > deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ hardy free non-free
>  > deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/project-neon/ubuntu hardy main #Amarok
>  > Nightly aka Neon
>  >
>  > apart from official hardy, hardy-updates, hardy-security's main,
>  > restricted, universe, and multiverse
>  >
>  > Is this because of the Neon repository? I wanted it only for amaroK.
>
>
> use "apt-cache policy" to see what repository is bringing in which packages.
>

Thanks Derek. Here are the apt outputs:

$ apt-cache policy libkipi5
libkipi5:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 4:4.0.83-0ubuntu1~hardy1
  Version table:
     4:4.0.83-0ubuntu1~hardy1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Packages

$ apt-cache show libkipi5
Package: libkipi5
Source: kdegraphics-kde4
Priority: extra
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 268
Maintainer: Kubuntu Developers <kubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: i386
Version: 4:4.0.83-0ubuntu1~hardy1
Replaces: libkipi0
Depends: kde-icons-oxygen, kdebase-runtime, kdebase-runtime-data,
kdelibs5 (>= 4:4.0.83-0ubuntu1~hardy1~ppa13), libc6 (>= 2.1.3),
libqtcore4 (>= 4.4.0), libqtgui4 (>= 4.4.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1-21)
Conflicts: libkipi0
Filename: pool/main/k/kdegraphics-kde4/libkipi5_4.0.83-0ubuntu1~hardy1_i386.deb

>  It's unusual for a libXXX5 library to conflict with a libXXX0 library -
>  that's precisely why they have different package names - if we really had
>  to replace a package, we could use the same name.
>
>  I can say that _only_ using the official ubuntu sources + medibuntu,
>  gwenview-kde4 doesn't cause any removal of libraries.

Well as seen from the above output, the conflicting libkipi5 is to be
installed from launchpad (as noted on kubuntu.org)

http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu

So, is this expected? Or is it a packaging bug?

-- 
Regards
PK
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