If I try and run photograph library program 'digicam' on my x86_64 system, I am
told that library libieee1284.so is missing.   If I use yast to check the
digicam dependencies, the library is not included.  I also cannot find any
other package providing ieee1284 in either 15.1 or tumbleweed. 

In previous releases my solution has been to download the code from sourceforge
(https://sourceforge.net/projects/libieee1284/), configure using the
'--without-python' option, 'make' and then try 'make install' - which
unfortunately does not install the libraries in /usr/lib64 - so I do this by
hand.  digikam then runs without problem.

However I am now slightly confused as I now see ieee1284 can be part of the
kernel.  

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/parport/ieee1284.c

So the bug is one of:
(a)  digikam should be compiled without parport support
(b)  ieee1284 should be included in the standard kernel
(c)  ieee1284 should be available as a package and this added as a dependency
to digikam.
(d)  I should have known or be told in the release notes that I would have to
add ieee1284 to some list of required kernel modules.
(e)  Something else.

I know that parallel ports are pretty rare these days but I think these all
count as bugs.

Regards,

David Webb.