RAW: Upgrade Darktable to 3.6.x

[Belphemur]

Hello,

I've got a couple of RAW files that didn't get converted properly to JPG because the version of darktable is too old.

I'm using the docker image ('photoprism/photoprism:latest') with the docker-compose setup on Digital Ocean.

I couldn't find a place where darktable is installed in the docker image. I would love to make a quick PR to update the version of darktable.

I found this information on the documentation

We've recently upgraded Darktable from 2.6.2 to 3.0.0. Since the old PPA is not maintained anymore, we switched to this repository that is hosted by SuSE

But I can't find any mention of the repository in the dockerfile.
Also, that repo comes with 3.7~preview.

Mingled image

How it looks in darktable 3.6.1

[lastzero]

We will upgrade to Ubuntu 21.10 next, which includes Darktable 3.6.0:

https://packages.ubuntu.com/impish/darktable

Please give us one or two weeks for this as working on multi-user support has priority right now. Of course you can manually install an updated package in the Docker container. Many unofficial repositories don't have packages for ARM (Raspberry Pi), so it's easier for us to use the official Ubuntu packages. Also this avoids dependency version conflicts and may reduce the Docker image size.

[lastzero]

Is it critical to have 3.6.1 instead of 3.6.0?

[Belphemur]

@lastzero I don't think there are many changes between 3.6.0 and 3.6.1.

Btw, I think you shouldn't rely on the distrib to keep the package up to date.

It seems darktable provide its own packaging for stable version:
https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=graphics:darktable&package=darktable

I can update the dockerfile to use this if you want, I know you already have so much to do.

Edit: I see what you mean by not having ARM packages, that quite an issue.

[Belphemur]

I've opened an issue with darktable to see if they could provide ARM package in their repo.

This would solve everything :)

[lastzero]

Right... it's Sunday evening and I'm still working, no end in sight! 😜

Official packages provided by the Darktable team would be great.

We had versions from external repositories, but ended up using the distribution packages as it's not acceptable that our build randomly breaks when the repository maintainer thinks it's now a good time to remove or break packages. Also we need ARM packages. Once we have the resources to make a full time job out of selecting & testing alternative packages, we are happy to do it.

[SimplyCorbett]

It'd be great if this also fixed proraw files not showing up correctly but based on their issue trackers that's not fixed yet.

[Belphemur]

So basically, darktable team isn't the one managing the OpenSuse repository.

Even if they say it's a supported way to install it.
I'll need to find who's in charge of the repository because it's impossible to find from the OpenSuse repo page.

[duichwer]

@Belphemur are you looking for this overview page?
https://build.opensuse.org/project/users/graphics:darktable
I only do not know how to get in contact with the maintainers

[Belphemur]

@duichwer Thanks I've missed that page, I've googled a little bit and found the email of one of the maintainer, I've contacted him.