Control: severity -1 important
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 06:16:05PM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote:
> I think we're seeing https://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/17702
> So I will reassign this bug to wxwidgets now...
> As wayland is the default, I increase severity to serious.
The definition of "serious" is:
| a severe violation of Debian policy (roughly, it violates a "must" or
| "required" directive), or, in the package maintainer's or release
| manager's opinion, makes the package unsuitable for release.
I can't think what in policy is violated here, and while the situation
is clearly far from ideal I don't think it makes wxwidgets3.0 unsuitable
for release.
This only affects applications using wxGLCanvas, and only those using
the gtk3 flavour of the library (currently we provide both gtk2 and gtk3
flavours built from the same source package, and gtk2 doesn't directly
support wayland).
If applications want to use the gtk3 flavour and wxGLCanvas they can
automate the workaround by setting "GDK_BACKEND=x11" early on (there are
some code snippets to do this in the upstream ticket), so my opinion
(as a maintainer of the package) is that "important" is a more
appropriate severity here, and I'm lowering the severity (unless a
release manager disagrees).
Fixing the underlying issue requires rewriting the OpenGL support
in the upstream wxWidgets code to not use X11 calls. Until that
happens, if this remains RC then currently the least awful way we
have to fix this is probably to drop OpenGL support from the gtk3
flavour, and force reverse dependencies currently using the gtk3 flavour
and wxGLCanvas to move back to the gtk2 flavour. Given there's a
reliable workaround that doesn't seem helpful.
If we could automate "GDK_BACKEND=x11" (or equivalent via the GDK
API) in wxwidgets that would be a neater way to address this until
the upstream code is updated to not require X11, but that seems to
be tricky to do because we don't know if wxGLCanvas will be used
or not at the point where we need to do this. Forcing X11 for all
apps using the gtk3 flavour of wxwidgets3.0 seems a bad idea.
Cheers,
Olly
