phkaeser
wlroots 0.18 support
wlroots 0.18 has been released: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/releases/0.18.0
And in Debian there's a transition tracker for it, so it would be great if wlmaker would support wlroots 0.18 too.
Actually there's already a branch at https://github.com/phkaeser/wlmaker/tree/nvidia that is updated to run with wlroots-0.18. It will need to get that cleaned up a little, and compile conditionally to support both 0.17 and 0.18 for smooth transition.
(meaning to imply: That may be not that much work, and should be feasible in the next weeks)
With #114, the code is supposed to be ready for 0.18, and github actions in place to keep it building for both 0.17 and 0.18. For Debian Trixie, it's also verified to work with pre-packaged libwlroots-dev and has many fewer depdencies. That should also apply to BSD.
@alexmyczko -> is there something I can help with adjusting the Debian package? And, anything further needed to let it build against wlroots-0.18 ?
@jbeich -> similar for *BSD, it should build with system wlroots. Anything I can help updating?
@phkaeser I guess all is fine, release a new version. You can see here:
https://sources.debian.org/src/wlmaker/0.3-2/debian/
in the changelog what is done in the latest package, and in patches/ you will find things that get patched for the package.
Debian 13 (trixie) will not be released before next year, and the freeze is also likely not to start before end of this year. https://release.debian.org/trixie/freeze_policy.html
Freezes usually take ~6 months, +-3 months.
Builds fine on FreeBSD with both wlroots 0.17 and 0.18. Runtime is OK except #117 which is easy to work around downstream.
wlmaker 0.4.1 looks good and was just uploaded to debian, see https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=wlmaker&suite=sid soon
Glad we finally got it to work for Sid! -- and saw it uses 0.18 there :)
@alexmyzcko -- will 0.4.1 also make it into Trixie?
@alexmyczko now shows as "blocked". Is that due to the wlroots dependency that has it's upgrade challenge?
(wlmaker should build against 0.17 and 0.18. Does debian have an explicit wlroots 0.18 package it should be configured against?)
It's build against libwlroots-0.18-dev which resulted in a runtime dependency against libwlroots-0.18, so for wlmaker everything is as it should be (thanks!).
The (migration) problem is 2 fold:
- wayfire which is working on wlroots 0.18 compatibility
- phoc is aware and working on it, but I'm a bit confused as the RC Debian bug about it which blocks migration is reassigned to wlroots source package, so maybe there will be wlroots-0.17 packages as well?
Thanks for adapting it to wlroots 0.18 :+1:
And with that conclusion, I can conclude that this issue is fixed. Thanks :)
Yay! 0.4.1 finally made it into Debian 13!
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1599527/wlmaker-041-2-migrated-to-testing/