darktable 2.6.3 in focal repositories needs updating to darktable 3.0.1

[Erich Eickmeyer]

Hi layingback,

On 4/6/20 1:40 AM, layingback wrote:
> Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa LTS still only has darktable 2.6.3 in the official
> repositories.
>
> darktable 3.0.0 was released Dec 24, 2019, and darktable 3.0.1 was released
> March 09 2020.
>
> ( darktable feature releases are traditionally released each Christmas. )
>
> Please note that darktable 3.x is NOT backward compatible with darktable 2.6.3. 
> So there is no way for a user of a more current version of darktable to even use
> darktable 2.6.3.  A supplement problem is that running 2.6.3 when you have a
> 3.0.x db (eg. if upgrading Ubuntu to 20.04 in place) results in a totally silent
> fail at load.  Only if run from a terminal do you see the '... db is too new
> ...  Aborting ...' message.
>
> I'm only a beta tester of Ubuntu MATE, and long time user of darktable - just
> raising a flag.  (Ubuntu MATE includes darktable as a 1-click install through
> Welcome.)  Bug report 1871049
> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mate/+bug/1871049) submitted to Ubuntu-MATE /
> Welcome.

This is being discussed on the bug you reported AND is being worked on,
no need to post here. :)

----
Erich Eickmeyer
Project Leader
Ubuntu Studio

ubuntustudio.org


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