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Will there be a Frescobaldi 3.2 release for Jammy?

Asked by victor n.

Hello,

The current release of Frescobaldi for Jammy (3.1.3) is broken (https://github.com/frescobaldi/frescobaldi/issues/1386) and pretty much unusable.

The fix is in the 3.2 release which hasn't made it to Jammy yet. Kinetic seems to have the updated package.

Is there a plan to have the package upgraded or are we pretty much stuck?

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

Manfred Hampl suggests this article as an answer to your question:
FAQ #3037: “no rolling release”.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#2

If the changes between the current version in jammy (3.1.3) and 3.2 are important enough to justify an upgrade, then it may be possible to achieve that by creating a bug report.

Another option is creating a PPA with the new version.

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victor n. (noagbodjivictor) said : 		#3

Thank you so much for your reply Manfred.

I just read about PPAs. And it seems like a solution for distributing software to users. I am not trying to get into that.

How do I open up a bug report for the package maintainers?

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#4

Creating a bug report can be done by using the web address https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/frescobaldi/+filebug

If you want to request a SRU, then you should use the SRU template
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#SRU_Bug_Template

Remarks:
I do not understand your reference to https://github.com/frescobaldi/frescobaldi/issues/1386
That problem is restricted to MacOS, so I do not see how this would affect the version in Ubuntu.

Have you tried manually downloading and installing the frescobaldi version for kinetic to your jammy system (also needs a manual download and install of python3-qpageview)?

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victor n. (noagbodjivictor) said : 		#5

Thanks.

I haven't tried to manually download and install it. I have been shying away from that for fear of breaking something. But I will give it a try.

The issue is indeed not with Frescobaldi itself but their Python/Qt dependencies. It affected many platforms, macOS included. On the mac, I do not have Python 3.10 installed. So I never saw the problem. On my Linux machine, I have Python 3.10 installed and packages depending on it. So I am seeing the issue and can't launch Frescobaldi.

This GitHub issue goes into more details: https://github.com/frescobaldi/frescobaldi/issues/1398

Everybody is confused because many people are reporting the problem over and over. But my reading is that Python 3.10 and Qt dependencies are causing the problem.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#6

https://github.com/frescobaldi/frescobaldi/issues/1398
and
https://github.com/frescobaldi/frescobaldi/issues/1386
are two different issues.

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victor n. (noagbodjivictor) said (last edit ): 		#7

Hello Manfred,

I ended up installing a Flatpak version as suggested here: https://github.com/frescobaldi/frescobaldi/issues/1456

That worked well for me.

Thank you.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#8

Comments to your github issue document:
I assume that the package that you did not find is named python3-poppler-qt5 on Ubuntu jammy.
And the persons you were talking to in this question document are not "the Ubuntu package maintainers".