Control: retitle -1 netsurf-fb: Completely unusable due to missing dependencies, symlinks and documentation
Hi Salvo, [another user who ran into that is writing here, not the package maintainer] thanks for that bug report. That explains why I never got netsurf-fb working for me either. Always thought it might have been some exotic graphics card issue or so. Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable While I slightly disagree with the justification, I agree with the RC severity. I also allowed myself to make the subject a little bit more verbose for the sake of clarity. > https://askubuntu.com/questions/817937/how-to-run-netsurf-fb-fails-with-unable-to-set-video-could-not-set-console-s Thanks for that link! > But the 3rd solution did not work and my screen just gets completely black and > I need to hard reset the machine. I proactively symlinked /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVu*.ttf to /usr/share/netsurf as it might depend on the website which font is searched for. Worked for me that way (on an Odroid XU4 running Stretch on the armhf architecture). > Fix these issues, or at least document how to make this thing work, add the > necessary dependencies, My suggestions: * Depend on what's necessary (the link above suggests xserver-xorg-video-fbdev, fbset and implicitly fonts-dejavu-core) * Add symlinks to all /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVu*.ttf files in fonts-dejavu-core to the netsurf-fb package. * Document the required user groups in either /usr/share/doc/netsurf-fb/README.Debian (not yet existing) or maybe even (in addition to README.Debian) also in the package description. > or remove this package. Please don't. It fills a rather unique niche. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
