On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 08:48:12PM -0400, James McCoy wrote:
On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 10:31:20PM +0100, NoisyCoil wrote:
To me "alacritty (literally) crashes on X11 without
libxkbcommon-x11-0" reads much more strongly than "not all
situations require the package". One can very well argue that not
having libxkbcommon-x11-0 installed with X11 is an unusual
situation, and I agree, but the solution then is finding out what
component of the stack is missing the dependency and adding it
there.
The simple solution is probably just to do as you initially suggested
- Depends on both of them. They have pretty small dependency trees.
Even better would be doing this naturally through detection of used
symbols so library transitions are handled sanely.
So, I guess I'd refine my near term suggestion of options:
1. Adjust the packaging so dlopen isn't used, which will result in
both libraries being Depends automatically.
Only wayland support can be easily forced to not use dlopen. The x11
support is always dynamically loaded.
Given that, I think I'll work on removing dlopen of wayland and add
"Recommends: libxkbcommon-x11-0" unless I hear any objections.
Cheers,
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James
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