A valid workaround (especially for those folks who prefer using the LTS releases) is to use the snap verison of Darktable - https://snapcraft.io/darktable.
However, my concern is that it's not officially maintained by the Darktable community (it is maintained by the individual); it would be great to see Darktable project maintaining the snap package officially. PS. Flatpak version exists as well, which is maintained by the Flathub community - https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.darktable.Darktable On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 11:07 AM layingback <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/04/2020 22:06, Heiko Bauke wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Am 04.04.20 um 16:00 schrieb layingback: > >> Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) LTS ships April 23, but it still only has > >> Darktable 2.6.3 in the official repositories. > >> > >> As an LTS (Long Term Support) it will be supported for 5 years (10 > years for > >> paid support). Doubt you want to be supporting new users on 2.6.3 next > year > >> and beyond? (Ubuntu rarely updates its repositories with major > releases, > >> only bug fixes, ie. darktable 3.0.1 - or even 3.0.0 - could get updated > >> through to 3.0.9, but never 2.x to 3.x.) > >> > >> Ubuntu 20.04 went into Beta yesterday (4/3) with release on 4/23 > following > >> FinalFreeze and RC1 on 4/16. > >> > >> I'm only a beta tester (Ubuntu MATE), and just raising a flag. If > 3.0.1 (or > >> 3.0.0) has been submitted at your end and it is just not getting > through, if > >> you would give me some info to work on I'll see what I can make happen. > >> (Ubuntu MATE includes darktable as a 1-click install.) > > > > the darktable developers' mailing list is probably not the right place > to ask > > this question. There is very little what darktable developers can do to > get a > > specific darktable version into any Linux distribution. You have to > kindly ask > > the Ubuntu maintainers to update darktable for the focal release. > According > > to https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/darktable you may reach them via > > [email protected] > > This Ubuntu web side also mentions the Debian PhotoTools Maintainers. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Heiko > > > > > Thanks for response. Have progressed somewhat: It should only be > included in > Ubuntu via inclusion in Debian upstream, but it is now too late (past > feature > freeze) for inclusion in Ubuntu even if it was updated in Debian. However > one > person has emerged who is hoping to include in Ubuntu Studio Backports, > and has > already received permission for an inclusion Exception for that. So for > now it > is just wait and see. > ___________________________________________________________________________ > darktable developer mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to > [email protected] > > ___________________________________________________________________________ darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
