Re: wlroots backport?

Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> Tue, 15 Aug 2023 18:40:05 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.backports.general
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Quoting Demi Marie Obenour (2023-08-15 18:04:00)
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 08:47:31PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I have written a Wayland compositor for Qubes OS that relies on wlroots.
> That said, I’m wondering if I should just link wlroots statically, as my
> compositor will follow upstream wlroots releases.

For distribution as part of Debian, use shared linking.

For private use, do whatever you feel like.

 - Jonas

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