The ninth alpha release of Rapid Photo Downloader 0.9 has been released. The purpose of this release is to work-around a problem when running the program in Fedora 25. Download it at http://damonlynch.net/rapid/download.html
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what problem exactly? is there a changelog included for packagers?
On Fedora 25, there was an obscure problem relating to Qt’s Signal/Slot mechanism when used with pickled data. The workaround was not difficult. Without the workaround, the program crashed. I’m not aware of the problem occurring on other platforms, but you never know.
There is no separate changelog for packagers. However the changelog describes the fix as “Fix bug #1665879: Work-around an unexpected signal/slot problem with Qt on Fedora 25.”, which while accurate is I assume meaningless to most readers here.
Is there a chance to add the latest stable version to Ububtu repository?
If someone packages all its dependencies, then it will appear using the tradition deb format. I’m not holding my breath here because no Debian developer has yet packaged python-gphoto2, for instance.
If someone makes a snap, then it will appear in that form. I don’t have time at the moment to develop the program, and in addition make a snap and a flatpak.
Meanwhile the current solution using Python’s packaging system is working out well.
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Thanks, Damon!
i meant a changelog/NEWS file in general. packagers like to have a nice list of things that changed in a release so we can tell the users about it. and manually figuriing it out from git e.g. is annoying.
You can get your news from the full changelog is available at every release, e.g. https://launchpad.net/rapid/pyqt/0.9.0a9/+download/CHANGES.rst
A link to CHANGES.rst is always found on the download page.
Between releases the same file is in the branch where development occurs: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~dlynch3/rapid/zeromq_pyqt/view/head:/CHANGES.rst