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Bug 595658 - Cannot upgrade system-installed extensions
Cannot upgrade system-installed extensions
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: f-spot
Classification: Other
Component: General
0.6.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: F-spot maintainers
F-spot maintainers
gnome[unmaintained]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-09-19 10:10 UTC by Iain Lane
Modified: 2018-07-01 08:55 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Iain Lane 2009-09-19 10:10:59 UTC 
Hi,

This was reported at [0]:

"The FacebookExport extension currently installed (0.6.0.5) cannot be replaced
with the latest repository version (0.6.0.6) due to lack of permissions.

The error message is:
The selected add-ins can't be installed because there are dependency
conflicts. The add-in 'FacebookExport v0.6.0.5' can't be uninstalled with the
current user permissions.

I tried disabling the 0.6.0.5 version of the extension, as per the FAQ at
http://f-spot.org/User_Guide/FAQ_1, but this again showed the same error.

The extension cannot be uninstalled, either, presumably because of lack of
permissions.

So, two errors:
1. The FAQ is wrong
2. Disabled extensions cannot be upgraded (though I would expect that disabling
should not be necessary to upgrade)"

Indeed this seems to be the case. I would expect that system extensions ought be able to be "shadowed" by users upgrading from the repos.

[0] http://bugs.debian.org/547296
Comment 1 André Klapper 2018-07-01 08:55:00 UTC 
f-spot is not under active development anymore, has not seen code changes for five years, and saw its last tarball release in the year 2010.
Its codebase has been archived: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/f-spot/commits/master

Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is deprecated) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again.