Bug 76927 – media-gfx/showimg requires <media-libs/libkexif-0.2

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Luigi Belli 2005-01-06 10:36:07 UTC]

Upgrading to libkexif-0.2.1 broke showimg, and showimg builds with libkexif support only with libkexif 0.1
Showimg can be built also with libkexif support disabled, but there's no way in the ebuild to control it.

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2005-01-06 13:50:08 UTC]

I don't want to make it optional and it wouldn't be a solution too, since users who want to have it installed, still face the problem. Having likexif-0.2.1 installed doesn't stop you to to install showimg w/o it. If I set a blocking dependency, I get bugs regarding alternating up/downgrades. It's a bit unfortunate, that the involved developers do not time their releases. It's not stable, so it's not an issue. If you want showimg w/ libkexif, please mask 0.2.1 locally.

[Comment 2 Thomas Bettler 2005-01-07 14:41:35 UTC]

Maybe this error message comes from this incompatibility?
Viewing an image in embedd mode (konqueror) i get this:

There was an error loading the module ShowImg Image Viewer.
The diagnostics is:
libkexif.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

qpkg -I -v libexif
libexif-0.5.12-r1

[Comment 3 Thomas Bettler 2005-01-07 14:45:18 UTC]

ooops, i mean

qpkg -I -v lib_k_exif
media-libs/libkexif-0.2.1

[Comment 4 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2005-01-07 14:48:50 UTC]

Thomas: You have to emerge showimg again or to go back to likexif-0.1.

[Comment 5 Luigi Belli 2005-01-07 16:39:36 UTC]

That's not a solution, re-emerging showimg with libkexif 0.2.1 will build the package WITHOUT libkexif support.

[Comment 6 Thomas Bettler 2005-01-08 07:51:21 UTC]

The developer of showimg is informed about this.

He will realease -0.9.4a later on...

[Comment 7 Thomas Bettler 2005-01-10 06:02:22 UTC]

The dependecy bug is fixed in 0.9.4-1

You may test it out.

See http://listes.jalix.org/wws/arc/showimg-users/2005-01/msg00002.html

[Comment 8 Luigi Belli 2005-01-10 07:33:04 UTC]

Created attachment 48100 [details]
Ebuild for 0.9.4-1 test package

[Comment 9 Luigi Belli 2005-01-10 07:33:49 UTC]

Compiles fine but also media-plugins/kipi-plugins need to be recompiled against new libkexif.

[Comment 10 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2005-01-11 17:01:44 UTC]

Thanks for your support, Thomas. I'll add it, when upstream does release it.

>Compiles fine but also media-plugins/kipi-plugins need to be recompiled against new libkexif.

Your job, Luigi. Portage doesn't support reverse dependencies yet. `revdep-rebuild` helps in most cases.

[Comment 11 Thomas Bettler 2005-01-17 10:35:25 UTC]

Released upstream
adopt changes...

[Comment 12 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2005-01-18 09:12:25 UTC]

in cvs