Thanks for the reply Aurélien.
As a normal debian user I use backports to be as updated as possible on packages (e.g. latest
libreoffice released these days).
As for 'system packages', unlike others, I prefer not to compile/install them from sources but
to refer to the official releases, so for the proposed options I will opt for "not using
backported wayland".
Thanks again to everyone who responded to my request.
Enrico
Il 24/09/24 22:04, Aurélien COUDERC ha scritto:
Hi Enrico,
Le 24 septembre 2024 09:50:54 GMT+02:00, Enrico
Rivarola<[email protected]> a écrit :
I am aware that packages in 'debian backports' may 'lead to some
incompatibility risks'
Yes.
but
Not sure whether "but" is appropriate. Maybe "thus" ?
from what I have been able to understand the problem seems to be due to other
packages (it seems 'kwin') not aligned with the updated packages ( see bug
1076729 (1) and 1081941 (2) ).
At the moment I am not able to try solutions such as rebuild KWin or other
system packages, hence my request to the maintainers if it is possible to
backport/update the packages in the bookworm-backports in order to have all
aligned and working so that we can update the system from backports without
building or pinning any packages.
As I explained in #1076729 the kwin-side fix is in extra-cmake-modules to pass
the correct build flags while building kwin to ensure that it doesn’t leak
private symbols into the global namespace.
Upstream also mentioned in an IRC discussion that there was a potential way to
prefer internal symbols in wayland which would work around kwin’s leak of
private symbols, but I don’t think it materialized in wayland’s code.
So options include :
- not using backported wayland,
- using Xorg,
- using testing/unstable,
- convincing someone to apply the extra-cmake-modules MR linked in #1076729 to
bookworm’s version and rebuild kwin with it,
- convincing someone to backport extra-cmake-modules >= 6.5 to bookworm and
rebuild kwin with it.
I’m not doing any of this patching / backporting myself.
Happy hacking,
--
Aurélien
