Digikam 2 for Fedora 14?

[Dariusz J. Garbowski]

On 09/09/11 05:43 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Dariusz J. Garbowski wrote:
>> Is there a chance for Digikam 2 being build for Fedora 14?
>
> The problem is that Digikam 2.x (there's 2.1.0 out now) requires versions of
> the kdegraphics libs which are only in 4.7.x, not 4.6.x. Obviously, we have
> no plans to upgrade Fedora 14 to KDE SC 4.7 (we even decided against pushing
> 4.7 to Fedora 15). Digikam 2.x does ship bundled copies of those libraries
> (the infamous "Digikam SC"), but in Fedora, bundled libraries are not
> allowed by policy (and I also personally find it less than helpful to have 2
> versions of those libraries around).
>
> I am planning to backport the new kdegraphics libraries for Fedora 15 so we
> can upgrade Digikam (but I will have to convince Rex and others before doing
> it, I don't want to do this over their heads), but for Fedora 14, I'm not so
> sure, considering that it's nearing its end of life.
>
> So I have to say, probably not, sorry. :-(

Thanks for detailed answer. I was hoping this might just be the case of building the package but the 
case being as it is I see why it's a pain to do staying compliant with Fedora policies.

Regards,
Dariusz