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bug#54385: xscreensaver seems to be missing xscreensaver-demo


From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Subject: bug#54385: xscreensaver seems to be missing xscreensaver-demo
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2022 18:28:54 +0100

Hi Christine,

Note that the name of this tool has changed upstream[0], but we're still on an older version for now. Building it:

    Warning: GTK version 2.24.33 was found, but at least one supporting
library (gdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0) was not, so GTK can't be used.
             Perhaps some of the development packages are not installed?

    Warning: The GTK libraries do not seem to be available; the
             `xscreensaver-demo' program requires them.

Where gdk-pixbuf-xlib is of course ‘a deprecated library’ and ‘[n]o newly written code should ever use this library’ so that'll be fun to maintain the coming years.

Our gdk-pixbuf package still mentions gdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0.pc in an obsolete comment but doesn't actually install it.

Oh:

  NEWS: - Split the gdk-pixbuf-xlib library to a separate repository

The repository is archived and read-only:

  https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gdk-pixbuf-xlib

Oh that is going to be *super* fun to maintain.

At this point I'd usually go ahead and package the beast, but I don't use xscreensaver. How important is this binary? (-demo sounds unimportant, -settings very, but it's presumably the same thing.)

In any case an update to xscreensaver would seem prudent first.

Kind regards,

T G-R

Sent from a Web browser.  Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

[0]: https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/changelog.html





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