On Mon, 2024-06-17 at 14:00 -0400, Przemek Klosowski via devel wrote:
On 6/17/24 02:39, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:
On 16/06/2024 18:24, Aoife Moloney wrote:
This release of Fedora Linux ships version 3 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program, with many new features and improved user experience. The package is called <code>gimp3</code>, the old version will still be available under the old name, <code>gimp</code> for users who need it for existing projects.
+1 to the proposal, but -1 to the quoted statement.
GIMP 3 should go to the gimp package and the gimp2 legacy compatibility package should be introduced.
Vitaly got it right---it should be a major exception to introduce versioned software naming, i.e. only when there are major system- level implications, like for Python2->3 transition. I do appreciate that people may have gimp application-level workflows [1] but Fedora should not be expected to fix them, given the upstream policy of releasing the new GIMP.
I don't agree with you , First where it is write that major release must be the un-version package ?
keep gimp2 as gimp and do gimp3 package will not force modify any other package and we won't have broken things , which may happen if you build one package for gimp2 when there is gimp3 already and no one notice, but that is my opinion .
Historically we got some cases , like wxGTK, wxGTK3, openjpeg and openjpeg2 ( btw openjpeg is not used by any package and openjpeg2 should move to openjpeg )
Speaking of gimp2, it looks like the GIMP upstream is planning to publish a gimp 2.10.x stable branch https://developer.gimp.org/core/roadmap/%C2%A0but with a low priority.
[1] obligatory XKCD reference: https://m.xkcd.com/1172/
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