Hi, On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 09:24:22PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 11:07:57 +0200 Guido =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?= > <a...@sigxcpu.org> wrote: > > Hi Praveen, > > I'm always in favour of providing newer phosh to users but see below for > details: > > > > On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 02:33:52PM +0530, Pirate Praveen via > Debian-on-mobile-maintainers wrote: > > > Package: phosh > > > Version: 0.32.0-1 > > > Severity: wishlist > > > > > > I think it'd be a good idea to provide new versions of phosh (with phoc, > > > wlroots, feedbackd) via bookworm-backports. I was earlier daily driving > > > mobian trixie on my Librem 5 but since its automatic suspend broke I > could > > > not continue using it [1]. So I'm using mobian bookworm but I miss the > newer > > > phosh (especially easy access to suspend button, which I use often for > power > > > saving). > > > > > > I have built the debs already and started using it from yesterday. I > have > > > shared the debs in my personal repo [2]. I'd like to upload and help > > > maintain it in bookworm-backports if you are okay with the idea of > providing > > > official backports. > > > > I'm okay with the idea if you sign up to handle bug reports concerning > > the backported versions. If that makes sense to you and Mobian has no > > objections (as I think running it together with Mobian will be the main > > use case for most people) we should maintain the backported branch in > > the DebianOnMobile git too. > > > > Note that backporting phosh will imply backporting phoc at some point > > and might also break phosh-mobile-settings at some point (and that > > requires newer libadwaita already (which requires newer GTK). That > > shouldn't' prevent us from backporting just now, just wanted to lay out > > that it might get a bit more involved in the future. > > I tried backporting phosh-mobile-settings now, as you mentioned it needs > newer libadwaita, which in turn needs newer glib and gtk4. So I think gnome > team won't like the official backports.
You can backport the *current* p-m-s version (see PureOS Crimson) without newer libadwaita but that won't work forever. Cheers, -- Guido > > Arnaud, > > Do you think it would be a good idea to have bookworm-backports suite in > mobian repo and upload these there? > > As for bugs, I think keeping up with new upstream versions would be a good > strategy. If I go with byzantium experience, I'd think you will support > newer versions on crimson, so having bookworm-backports should be easier to > maintain. > > Cheers and thanks for having a look at this, > > -- Guido > > > > > > > > Since pureos crimson is not yet useable, I think this would be useful > for > > > many who want a newer base OS. > > > > > > [1] > <https://salsa.debian.org/Mobian-team/devices/librem5-support/-/issues/7> > > > [2] <https://people.debian.org/~praveen/mobian/> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Debian-on-mobile-maintainers mailing list > > > debian-on-mobile-maintain...@alioth-lists.debian.net > > > <https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-on-mobile-maintainers> > > > > > > > > > >