Re: wlroots backport?

Michael Tokarev <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.backports.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
14.08.2023 02:28, Demi Marie Obenour wrote:
> Is there any interest in backporting the latest version of wlroots
> (0.16.2) to bookworm?  wlroots upstream only supports the latest version
> and the wlroots API is unstable, so compositors that rely on 0.16.x will
> not work with the version in stable (0.15.x).

There's an issue with wlroots and backporting: it is the soname of libwlroots
library.  We don't gain much by backporting just the wlroots, the users of
the library has to be rebuild or backported too.

/mjt
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