Greetings.
Much like https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/542 I'd like to ask for a updates exception to update calibre in F17/F18.
calibre has a weekly release schedule, and it mixes new features and hardware enablement in with bugfixes and other changes. This quickly makes it incompatible to upgrade in stable releases.
However, f17/f18 users are now needing the newer version for new hardware and also newer versions improve mtp handling a good deal, and since many readers use that it helps a lot of them.
I have packages available in a side repo at: http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/kevin/calibre/ and after asking folks to test those, they are usually quite happy.
In partcular: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952802 is a request for the newer version with improved mtp device handling.
Happy to provide more info...
Can you describe the sort of incompatibilities that come up? Does Calibre provide a library that other projects are consuming, or is it just a self-contained application?
It's a self contained application.
The incompatibilities are changes in the user experence. ie, menu items being added, moved or removed. New items being added, interface changes, etc.
Overall they are not radical changes, but users would possibly have to look around for things on occasion.
That's what I thought. I use Calibre myself and I think it probably leans pretty heavily in the same direction as Firefox: users of it are used to rapid changes and generally okay with it.
I'm +1.
A few of the calibre binaries might be used in other packages or in users' scripts (I'm particularly thinking of /usr/bin/ebook-convert), however (repoquery --whatrequires) doesn't show anything.
I'm +1 as well - for "leaf applications" that Fedora does not especially maintain/patch/test (e.g. that are not related to the release criteria), both the quality and compatibility are primarily up to upstream.
Same as Firefox, the exception will be fine +1
+1 from me as well
+1.
That's 5. Closing.
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