Hello: I noticed a while back that the packages for compiz in sid are outdated and the packages in experimental don't even install for various reason. While browsing the web I learned that upstream went through some changes to say the least and moved their development to launchpad. Coincidentally, they had just released a new version when I checked. I'm not entirely sure if they consider 0.9.7.0 a stable release or not but they released it on 03/02 (core) and 03/03 (plugins) [1][2][3].
Like a lot of software lately that I use (wine 1.4, emerald (not sure why it got removed), 20 or so "multiarchified" packages so I can install wine and kill ia32-libs, etc), I decided to package it for my personal use. While doing this I learned how much of a pain/mess the way upstream organize their software is. Also after trying to figure out why they kept merging old code over new code destroying their fixes and other issues, I decided to share the packaging that I did. Some good must come out of this heh. I uploaded the 6 packages to https://github.com/micove . I did not package compiz-fusion-bcop and compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported since they are basically dead upstream. Also I did not package compizconfig-backend-kconfig since it seems dead and the KDE portion of compiz apparently is not being worked on upstream and it's broken/needs fixing from what I read. The last one is compizconfig-backend-gconf which I never use and with the removal of the compiz-gnome package by the NMU in sid, I mentally moved it with the other 3 into the dead/unsupported category. They seem to be systematically shrinking and only really working on core [1] while the other packages are rarely updated. There could be some issues with the packages. From the top of my head: - I did not update the standard versions since I was not sure if DEP5 was required. -The settings are now moved from a compiz folder to a compiz-1 folder and I believe they don't get passed to the new version. From what I remember, Ubuntu used to have a patch or something to move the settings not sure. - I acknowledged the sid NMU while doing an NMU which is rather silly but I left it in. - Some minor issues like splitting the compiz-core package which is 98% data, making up a better package name for the new library or patching some of the random lintian Info or Pedantic that I saw. - The release closes a lot of bugs from the tracker but I did not have time to go through the combined list of the bugs for the packages. >From the ones I saw the RC ones are fixed. I have been running it using the emerald wm for a day or two and after changing a few settings via patching to workaround a few bugs (ok a lot of segfaults and impressive complete system locks), It seems to behave nicely if I forget about the increased cpu usage. I only enable the plugins I need so my experience may not be really representative. I tried to document everything I did in the commit messages and patch headers and made the changelogs fairly verbose. Hope this helps, Miguel P.S. I'm not part of the mailing list so please CC me. [1] https://launchpad.net/compiz-core [2] https://launchpad.net/compiz-plugins-main [3] https://launchpad.net/compiz-plugins-extra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAEcnbVzHS=-eYFGR2BDkCxOWgYb0tWMvcZbH=vs_jnjvn_n...@mail.gmail.com
