Re: wlroots backport?

Hi Michael,

* Michael Tokarev <[email protected]> [230815 02:55]:
> 
> There's an issue with wlroots and backporting: it is the soname of libwlroots
> library.

can you please explain or point me to an existing explanation of this
problem?

I'm curious because I have backported wlroots 0.16.2 from testing/unstable
to bookworm. The produced libwlroots-dev and libwlroots11 packages seem
to happily coexist with the libwlroots10 that ships with bookworm.

> We don't gain much by backporting just the wlroots, the users of
> the library has to be rebuild or backported too.

With the backported wlroots I'm able to backport sway from
testing/unstable and also able to build/package/use the latest version
of my wayland compositor of choice[1,2]. These backports required no
modifications to the source packages.

Thanks,

Nick.

1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1006593
2. https://salsa.debian.org/nickh/river