[EPEL-devel] Problems with gthumb and exiv2-libs after upgrade to CentOS 7.5 (1804)

[Nicolas Kovacs]

Hi,

Our local school is running a highly customized Xfce desktop based on
CentOS 7. We're using quite many EPEL packages.

The upgrade from CentOS 7.4 to 7.5 has been a bit bumpy for desktop
users. Here's what happens when I try to install the Gthumb image viewer:

  --> Résolution des dépendances terminée
  Erreur : Paquet : gthumb-3.3.4-1.el7.x86_64 (epel)
               Requiert : libexiv2.so.12()(64bit)
   Vous pouvez essayer d'utiliser --skip-broken pour contourner le
   problème

The problem has already been reported, and there's a detailed discussion
about it here:

https://access.redhat.com/discussions/3414821

It seems like the only workaround is to rebuild the old exiv2-libs
package and build a corresponding compat- package.

My question to you here: is there any way you provide this package?
Because in the current state, the gthumb package you provide is unusable.

Cheers from the sunny South of France,

Niki Kovacs
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