On Friday, July 15, 2022 6:27:51 P.M. CDT you wrote: > Hi, > > This bug is rather anoying as I'm using digikam to manage my video.
I agree it is annoying. I feel the same pain. Given the hard-transition of ffmpeg [1], it is not possible to build with video in unstable today. Digikam was temporarily removed from Debian and the only way to re-introduce it is to not use ffmpeg at all which has the serious side effect to drop video. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1004831 > The low severity (and the title of the bug) does not allow one to stop > the upgrade with apt-listbugs. In my opinion, this bug is at lease > important (to be seen by apt-listbugs) and its title should reflect > that video is not handle by digikam for now (or a new bug can be > created and blocked by this one) Thank you for the suggestion. I was completely unaware of "apt-listbugs". I have just re-titled and changed the severity of this bug. The manpage for apt-listbugs says it displays serious and above by default. Therefore, I have made it 'serious' according to the criteria "in the package maintainer's or release manager's opinion, makes the package unsuitable for release". > Due to the large dependencies, it is probably very difficult to > downgrade digikam to a version with video support once 4:7.7.0-1 > is installed. I did not try for now. I haven't tried either, so I don't know. Maybe one can just pull the packages from the last stable release? Build the 7.6 source package ? I would say that there may well be others in your situation so if you do find a method please report back to this bug. > I hope video will be soon back. Upstream is certainly aware of the issue and work is underway to migrate to the newer ffmpeg. I am monitoring the upstream mailing list and sources. Based on what I see at present, I'm not optimistic for the short term, so if you're using testing or unstable you may want to look into the downgrade option. I am more hopeful that things will be resolved in time for the next Debian release. Best, -Steve
