Re: F-Spot package for Ubuntu 20.04

[Alexis Guillaume <ml alek free fr>]

On Tue, 4 Aug 2020 16:37:26 +0100
Christopher Hoskin via f-spot-list <f-spot-list gnome org> wrote:

> Anyone still on this list might be interested to know that I have
> updated my Ubuntu 18.04 F-Spot package so that it builds, installs and
> runs on Ubuntu 20.04:
>
> https://launchpad.net/~christopher-hoskin/+archive/ubuntu/f-spot?field.series_filter=focal
>
> Please be aware that this has received only superficial testing by me,
> and that it pulls in forward ports of packages of old software which
> are no longer maintained by Debian or Ubuntu, and therefore may
> contain bugs, incompatibilities or security issues.
>
> Please ensure that you have backed up your F-Spot database (usually
> ~/.config/f-spot) before attempting to install this package.
>
> To add the PPA to your system and install:
>
> ```
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:christopher-hoskin/f-spot
> sudo apt update
> sudo apt install f-spot
> ```

Thanks a lot for your work. I really appreciate it and I don't think
I'm the only one. I was delaying my upgrade to ubuntu 20.04 for fear of
losing f-spot once again.

I will test it and keep you posted if I encounter some problems.

ALexis.