Re: Glycin thumbnailers in Debian

On Sun, 17 Aug 2025 02:41, Jeremy Bicha <[email protected]> wrote:
>The blog post recommends disabling gdk-pixbuf's own thumbnailer and
>using glycin's thumbnailer instead (which Ubuntu has packaged with the
>binary package name glycin-thumbnailers).
Right.
>glycin is not available on several non-release architectures [3]. My
>understanding is that we need to keep a binary package available in
>release architectures for it to be available in ports. I might be
>mistaken on that detail. However, Ubuntu would rather not build glycin
>on i386 but Ubuntu does build gdk-pixbuf for i386. Therefore, this is
>easy to resolve by keeping the gdk-pixbuf thumbnailers and the
>without-glycin build option on i386 and the ports where glycin isn't
>available.
That was my concern too, that some ports do not have libseccomp and thus 
can't run build glyin.
>Currently, the gdk-pixbuf thumbnailers are included with some other
>utilities in libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin so maybe we should split those
>thumbnailers to a separate binary package?
>
IMO that makes sense, so at a later time we can selectively enable the 
linking against libglycin. Since this is a build time option though this 
could be enabled selectivly only for the release arches at a later 
point. If you all agree then I'd just add the new binary 
glycin-thumbnailer package and leave gdk-pixbuf as-is. That seems like 
the least invasive course of action.

best,

werdahias