Re: digikam upgrade: plugins to be remove
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 12:44:00 -0400, H.S. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Debian Testing, if I try to upgrade digikam, aptitude wants to remove
> digikamimageplugins and kipi-plugins (the actual output is further below).
> Now, how do I know why these removals are necessary?
Add the "-D" option to get brief explanations for automatic installs and
removals. These are the conflicting packages for the testing version of
digikam:
Conflicts: digikamimageplugins, kipi-plugins (<= 0.1.3~rc0), libkexiv2-0, libexiv2-0.12
Digikamimageplugins is now included in digikam (see below). You have to
wait for a newer version of kipi-plugins to come to Lenny (or you can
install the Sid version now).
BTW, I just discovered that aptitude has recently learned a nifty new
trick, the "why/why-not" command:
$ aptitude why-not digikamimageplugins
i kde-extras Recommends digikam
p digikam Conflicts digikamimageplugins
This is really useful to figure out what is going on with complicated
dependency issues. It is currently only available to Sid users, though
(aptitude version 0.4.5.3 or higher).
> Now, how do I know why these removals are necessary? And how do I find out
> if I should go ahead with the upgrade since, maybe the new package has the
> two packages built-in now?
This information is often included in the package description. For
digikam you can find this:
"All plugins previously provided by the digikamimageplugins package are
now included in this package."
Failing that, you can download and read the changelog of the package
before installing or upgrading.
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