Re: Libwayland update causes Plasma desktop freeze on login

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
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