FS#25422 - [rawtherapee] Development-Build of RawTherapee in [community], instead of stable release

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Markus Germann (Kopfweh) - Saturday, 06 August 2011, 11:36 GMT
Last edited by Lukas Jirkovsky (6xx) - Saturday, 13 August 2011, 18:25 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Lukas Jirkovsky (6xx)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

I updatet my system with pacman -Syu and got an update of RawTherapee, which is a Raw-Converter, to version 4.0.0-1. It's in the [community]-Repository but there hasn't released a stable version 4 of RawTherapee yet. Instead, just a few days ago the stable version 3 has released, which can be read on the official web-page: http://rawtherapee.com/
The version in [community] seems to be an nightly- or development-version of RawTherapee. I asked in the forums for it here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=971299#p971299
The question is why we should use a nightly build of a program instead of a stable release which has just released two weeks ago.

Additional info:
* package version(s):
rawtherapee-4.0.0-1

Steps to reproduce:
The commit can be found here: http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/rawtherapee/trunk?id=52a11a3ef5042f8e9faf1bd7ef77f811249b7f4f
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Closed by  Lukas Jirkovsky (6xx)
Saturday, 13 August 2011, 18:25 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Additional comments about closing:  It would break all existing profiles. For more details see my comment.
Comment by Lukas Jirkovsky (6xx) - Saturday, 13 August 2011, 18:25 GMT
For a long time the 3.0 branch was abandoned. It was discussed that it will never be released but the development version (now known as 4.0) will be released instead. That's why I decided to package the development version (it contained all bugfixes). When 3.0 has come alive I was already beyond the point of no return. The 3.0 profiles too very different from the 4.0 which is in [community]. If I had packaged 3.0 I would have broken profiles for everyone using rawtherapee from community.

PS. And 4.0 is much more juicy ;-)

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