[FFe] Krita 4.0.0 for Bionic

[Rik Mills]

The Kubuntu Team request a Feature Freeze Exception for Krita 4

Krita 4.0.0 was released on 22/03/2018

4.0.0 release notes are here: https://krita.org/en/krita-4-0-release-notes/

4.x series is a new release the Krita team are very keen to get into Ubuntu LTS, and to this end have set an aim to get a bugfix release 4.0.1 out before we hit final freeze.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xpYchfGFviTqdlFqvve5JTR5rSyno1YfGDHxw3QLhS4/edit

The 4.x series is also one we will be able to support with fixes in Bionic 18.04, whereas the end of life 3.3.3 we currently ship is unlikely to receive any more.

Our testing build is in ppa:kubuntu-ppa/staging-misc

https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/ubuntu/staging-misc/+sourcepub/8905609/+listing-archive-extra

based on debian https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/kde-extras/krita

[Rick Timmis (rick-timmis)]

I have tested this version on Kubuntu 18-04 Beta. It installed with out any issue ( I used Muon to add the PPA, and install Krita ).

I am a long time Krita user, and use it regularly under Kubuntu 17.10, with my Wacom Tablet.

Both my Wacom tablet, and this version of Krita functioned just as I would expect, no setup required, just worked straight out of the box.

Please Ship it, we definitely want this is 18-04 LTS !

[Darin Miller (darinmiller)]

I can also verify Krita 4.0 installed and works fine. However, I am not an artist nor Krita super user, so I was only able to test primitive functionality.

[Boudewijn (boud)]

Yes, please. As the Krita maintainer I really support this: we intend to keep releasing Krita 4 for at least 4 years. We don't intend to create a new major version until we have to port to Qt 6.

[Deevad (deevad)]

I'm an artist and Krita super user. I work right now on Kubuntu 17.10 + Kubuntu backport ppa and Krita 4.0.x built from sources. ( demo during a livestream last Wednesday: https://peertube.touhoppai.moe/videos/watch/a58677a2-049c-4255-a0f7-2a206460e5a0 ). I am just adding my voice here to underline how I feel important the LTS ecosystem to benefit of this major release of Krita in default package. There is a very big gap between Krita 3.3 and 4.0.0 and in my opinion 3.3 wouldn't be interesting for the end users (and it would push them directly to use the appimage of Krita team and question how outdated the LTS based distro are).

[Dmitry Kazakov (dimula73)]

Hi, all!

I have just tested the package in question on the latests 18.04 image, it is built and works fine except three minor issues:

1) To make python scripting work, one should install additional (optional) packages during the runtime (not build time):

python3-pyqt5
python3-sip
libpython3-dev

2) To make audio support work, one should install one additional (optional) package during the runtime (not build time):

libqt5multimedia5-plugins

3) apt also "suggests" to install 'phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer', it is not needed anymore.

I think these packages should be either added to "Recommends" or "Suggests" lists of the package.

Otherwise the package of Krita looks perfectly fine: python, sound, translations, gsl --- all seem to work fine :)

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Ok, seeing that 4.0.0 does seem to have some bugs, please try to get 4.0.1 out and into bionic before final freeze fixing any outstanding issues. Does anyone know if there's any particular reason why Debian didn't get 4.0.0 uploaded yet?

[Dmitry Kazakov (dimula73)]

Hi, Lukasz!

Debian didn't contact us anything about the packages, I guess they just didn't notice or something. The maintainer of our Krita Lime repository (Alexey Samoilov) also maintains his own repositories for Debian. I guess they can be reused for official Debian packages:

https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:Sunderland93:krita

[Rik Mills (rikmills)]

Runtime deps updated in my packaging, which FYI is derived from the WIP debian for 4.0.0. Have tried enquiring when that might get uploaded, but as yet no reply from the packager.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

FFe approved.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package krita - 1:4.0.0+dfsg-0ubuntu1

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krita (1:4.0.0+dfsg-0ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release (4.0.0) (LP: #1760347)
  * Sync debian work in progress changes
  * Add additional runtime python and QtMultimedia deps, as requested by
    Krita developers

 -- Rik Mills <email address hidden> Sat, 07 Apr 2018 12:29:08 +0100