Re: XLibre in Debian

On 10/4/25 8:32 PM, Aaron Johnson wrote:
>  From a technical perspective, XLibre appears to offer several 
> contributions:
> - Long-term support for X server as legacy X implementations lose 
> maintenance
> - Continued security patches for X11-dependent environments
> - Maintained compatibility for proprietary drivers where Wayland support 
> remains incomplete

Can we stop the charade? None of this is true. The maintainer got their 
privileges from X11 removed because they were... not a good maintainer 
and randomly broke interfaces that existing software relied upon. And 
even introduced security issues with some of their patches. And XLibre 
broke compatibility with the one proprietary driver that actually 
matters here.

Which leaves:

> - Support for users who rely on remote X applications, specific window 
> managers, or accessibility workflows that aren't fully addressed by Wayland

No-one is currently arguing for an X11 removal. I don't see how that'd 
require XLibre of all things.

Kind regards
Philipp Kern