News that might affect BunsenLabs

hhh · 2020-09-27 08:01:53

^The only thing I noticed on default Buster was that the upgrade warned of a new repo channel version number or something, then it installed a new kernel. After that, 'sudo apt --purge autoremove' removed an old kernel, but that still left the new one and the two most recent older ones. A clean upgrade for me, no manual config editing was needed.

I love Debian stable and Lithium. Small wonder MX Linux is #1 on DistroWatch, it's Xfce on Debian stable with a large repo of updated/backported packages.

johnraff · 2020-09-27 11:53:53

^ & ^^ My upgrade went smoothly too. I guess you mean this message?

Repository 'https://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease' changed its 'Version' value from '10.5' to '10.6'

Apart from the kernel, I had mostly a lot of qt library upgrades. No questions asked. smile

eight.bit.al · 2020-09-27 13:58:06

hhh wrote:

^Small wonder MX Linux is #1 on DistroWatch, it's Xfce on Debian stable with a large repo of updated/backported packages.

...a large repo of updated/backported packages.

What he said.

8bit

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hhh · 2020-09-27 17:48:39

@johnraff, that was the message, thanks.

johnraff · 2020-09-29 05:19:41

Cinnamon for Debian – imminent removal from testing
https://www.preining.info/blog/2020/09/ … m-testing/

DeepDayze · 2020-09-30 00:17:45

johnraff wrote:

Cinnamon for Debian – imminent removal from testing
https://www.preining.info/blog/2020/09/ … m-testing/

Hopefully someone will take Cinnamon and also needs updates to some dependencies (that may also be getting the boot). Seems Cinnamon's gotten pretty popular but aren't many using Mate instead?

johnraff · 2020-12-17 07:23:57

Debian devs considering future of i386 support.

Debian-release mailing list:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-release … 00139.html

Debian-user ML:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/20 … 00583.html

cloverskull · 2020-12-17 10:43:54

I was reading GTK4 was released, GTK2 is EOL. Not sure if that matters to BL but figured I’d bring it up smile

ohnonot · 2020-12-17 19:40:38

cloverskull wrote:

GTK2 is EOL.

Link please?

cloverskull · 2020-12-17 21:38:15

@ohnonot - https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page= … 0-Released

Looks like GTK2 will receive one more point release with no further support to follow.

rbh · 2020-12-17 21:47:27

"GTK 2 has reached the end of its life. We will do one final 2.x release in the coming days, and we encourage everybody to port their GTK 2 applications to GTK 3 or 4."

https://blog.gtk.org/2020/12/16/gtk-4-0/

hhh · 2020-12-18 02:30:52

I also saw the GTK 4.0 news today. I assume that almost no apps have been ported to it yet except for the GNOME apps in the upcoming GNOME 40 release, due in March or so...

https://wiki.gnome.org/Forty

March is after the soft-freeze of Bullseye, so no way is GNOME 40 making it in and GTK 4 should be barely an issue in BL Beryllium.

ohnonot · 2020-12-18 17:42:45

Thanks cloverskull & rbh.
Sorry to insist, but there's been a lot of hyperbole about this, so I wanted to make sure it's not another dud.

So, GTK 4 is finally coming! It's been in the works for long enough!

DeepDayze · 2020-12-19 05:01:21

hhh wrote:

I also saw the GTK 4.0 news today. I assume that almost no apps have been ported to it yet except for the GNOME apps in the upcoming GNOME 40 release, due in March or so...
https://wiki.gnome.org/Forty
March is after the soft-freeze of Bullseye, so no way is GNOME 40 making it in and GTK 4 should be barely an issue in BL Beryllium.

Perhaps for Beryllium, try to look for GTK3 based apps for the default install?

hhh · 2020-12-21 04:56:46

DeepDayze wrote:

Perhaps for Beryllium, try to look for GTK3 based apps for the default install?

Most of it already is. Simulate removing libgtk2.0-0 to see what is what. Here's mine...

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  arandr* arc-theme* ardour* audacious* audacious-plugins* audacity*
  bunsen-themes* calf-plugins* fbxkb* filezilla* gigolo* gimp* gimp-gmic*
  gimp-plugin-registry* gmrun* gparted* gpicview* gtk2-engines-murrine*
  guitarix* guitarix-lv2* hardinfo* hexchat* inkscape* libaudgui5* libexo-1-0*
  libgimp2.0* libglade2-0* libgtk2.0-0* libgtkmm-2.4-1v5* libgtkspell0*
  libgxw0* libgxwmm0* libkeybinder0* libreoffice-gtk2* libsuil-0-0*
  libwxgtk3.0-0v5* libxfce4ui-1-0* lxappearance* lxtask* nitrogen* obmenu*
  oomox* python-glade2* python-gtk2* python-keybinder* python-notify*
  qt5-style-plugins* ristretto* spotify-client* tint2* xbindkeys-config*
  xfburn*

johnraff · 2020-12-21 07:36:14

^Short list but includes some pretty important stuff.

DeepDayze · 2020-12-21 23:31:14

hhh wrote:

DeepDayze wrote:

Perhaps for Beryllium, try to look for GTK3 based apps for the default install?

Most of it already is. Simulate removing libgtk2.0-0 to see what is what. Here's mine...

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  arandr* arc-theme* ardour* audacious* audacious-plugins* audacity*
  bunsen-themes* calf-plugins* fbxkb* filezilla* gigolo* gimp* gimp-gmic*
  gimp-plugin-registry* gmrun* gparted* gpicview* gtk2-engines-murrine*
  guitarix* guitarix-lv2* hardinfo* hexchat* inkscape* libaudgui5* libexo-1-0*
  libgimp2.0* libglade2-0* libgtk2.0-0* libgtkmm-2.4-1v5* libgtkspell0*
  libgxw0* libgxwmm0* libkeybinder0* libreoffice-gtk2* libsuil-0-0*
  libwxgtk3.0-0v5* libxfce4ui-1-0* lxappearance* lxtask* nitrogen* obmenu*
  oomox* python-glade2* python-gtk2* python-keybinder* python-notify*
  qt5-style-plugins* ristretto* spotify-client* tint2* xbindkeys-config*
  xfburn*

I have a similar list doing a simulated removal of libgtk2.0-0, and hopefully these can be migrated to gtk3 or suitable replacements found for these programs for those that can't be migrated to gtk3. Gtk2's impending deprecation will mean moving to address this in BL where possible where resources and time permit.

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johnraff · 2020-12-22 04:42:50

^I don't think GTK2 is going to disappear for a while yet - anyway Debian Bullseye still has the GTK2 libraries: https://packages.debian.org/source/bullseye/gtk+2.0

Migration of the above packages might or might not happen, depending on the motivation of their developers. It's certainly not something BunsenLabs would ever take on. More likely is that we'll some day have to search for replacements, but that's a task well down the road, I think. (Up till now we've been trying to resist the GTK3 switch as hard as we can - it's not necessarily a plus for all users.)

ohnonot · 2020-12-22 06:33:43

johnraff wrote:

I don't think GTK2 is going to disappear for a while yet

Yep, esp. on Debian!

Also keep in mind that (unlike e.g. Qt) GTK2 is "just" a UI toolkit and to keep on using it does not pose a security risk or some such. As long as it works, no problem.

DeepDayze · 2020-12-22 20:29:22

ohnonot wrote:

johnraff wrote:
I don't think GTK2 is going to disappear for a while yet
Yep, esp. on Debian!
Also keep in mind that (unlike e.g. Qt) GTK2 is "just" a UI toolkit and to keep on using it does not pose a security risk or some such. As long as it works, no problem.

Makes sense. As long as there's no so-called bit rot then why not keep them if they work?

johnraff · 2021-01-15 04:34:52

Bullseye Freeze Policy:
https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze_policy.html

Mostly for developers, but some bits of interest to us too, eg:

2021-02-12 - Milestone 2 - Soft Freeze

Packages that are not in bullseye at the start of the soft freeze will not be in the release.

and

Please note that packages that are in bullseye at the start of the soft freeze can still be removed if they are buggy.

So nothing that's not in Testing on 12th Feb. will be coming in Bullseye. (I don't think that rules out possible package upgrades though.)

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