News that might affect BunsenLabs

johnraff · 2019-02-23 06:39:04

New In Buster a Debian Wiki page that will probably get added to over the coming weeks...

DeepDayze · 2019-02-24 01:30:52

johnraff wrote:

New In Buster a Debian Wiki page that will probably get added to over the coming weeks...

Gotta love the humor in that wiki page. Who says Debian devs have no humor???

johnraff · 2019-02-24 03:10:17

Not news really, but reference about Debian's Long Term Support programme. Jessie's good for another year, Stretch till 2022: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

johnraff · 2019-03-25 02:55:07

Of course BL uses the Debian default systemd, but those who'd rather use alternative inits might be cheered by another bug report suggesting that Debian intends to go on supporting things like elogind: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=925331

johnraff · 2019-04-05 09:02:13

Synaptic gone from Buster.
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1037065 … m-testing/
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … =818366#55
https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comment … d_i_start/

Because it doesn't work with Wayland which is the defdault login for Gnome which is the default DE for Debian...

earlybird · 2019-04-05 10:21:45

johnraff wrote:

Synaptic gone from Buster.
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1037065 … m-testing/
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … =818366#55
https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comment … d_i_start/
Because it doesn't work with Wayland which is the defdault login for Gnome which is the default DE for Debian...

Ah, it's because Synaptic wants to have its GTK3 GUI run as root which GNOME doesn't like…they are suggesting polkit integration to fix the issue.

While Synaptic has been around forever (I used it first about 12 years ago?) it is right that this doesn't work (anymore, by default anyway, there seem to be hacks around it), but I don't get why Debian would not include it at all since they still ship Xorg and 20 more desktops anyway, it's not in line with the attitude they are known for -- seems like they now care a lot more about brand. However, doesn't GNOME even have its own package manager / software center? Synaptic is not even the default package manager of GNOME. Non sequitur re. the GNOME issue. Most likely brand concerns.

linux_user · 2019-04-05 11:27:24

johnraff wrote:

Synaptic gone from Buster.
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1037065 … m-testing/
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … =818366#55
https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comment … d_i_start/
Because it doesn't work with Wayland which is the defdault login for Gnome which is the default DE for Debian...

Does it mean that it's gone from their xfce and other DEs as well? If it's a branding issue like @earlybird suggested, then perhaps it won't be available.

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ohnonot · 2019-04-06 04:40:50

johnraff wrote:

Synaptic gone from Buster.
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1037065 … m-testing/
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … =818366#55

ouch.
the second link says that the actual reason for the removal is "failure without error message".
I hope they get it fixed & put it back in ASAP. forcing things like GNOME software manager on all those "the terminal pains me" GUI freaks out there is not good.

johnraff · 2019-04-27 05:55:45

Synaptic is back. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/synaptic

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Meanwhile there's a new version of the Debian Installer out, which now seems to support Secure boot. cool
https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-ins … 9/20190415

johnraff · 2019-05-21 05:53:56

Debian Buster and Wayland
Summary of the current situation:
https://jmtd.net/log/buster_wayland/

Jimbo_G · 2019-05-21 08:29:44

^ Thanks for the link, very interesting. According to it, Synaptic is back but still not functional under Wayland

hhh · 2019-05-22 16:03:35

earlybird wrote:

While Synaptic has been around forever (I used it first about 12 years ago?) it is right that this doesn't work (anymore, by default anyway, there seem to be hacks around it), but I don't get why Debian would not include it at all since they still ship Xorg and 20 more desktops anyway, it's not in line with the attitude they are known for -- seems like they now care a lot more about brand. However, doesn't GNOME even have its own package manager / software center? Synaptic is not even the default package manager of GNOME. Non sequitur re. the GNOME issue. Most likely brand concerns.

Yes, gnome-core includes gnome-software (which is actually quite nice, but bloated of course).

What I don't get is the Firefox issue... without Wayland as a back end, switching to fullscreen in Firefox (keyboard shortcut F11) locks the entire desktop up, the screen glitches/freezes, no mouse or keyboard input so you have to do a hard shutdown (or ssh in and shut it down).

The workaround is to download a Firefox Nightly build and run it with Wayland support...

env GDK_BACKEND=wayland firefox

Is that all going to be pre-configured on Debian GNOME? The only version of FF in Debian is firefox-esr, they're not going to add a new browser this late in the freeze... I don't get it.

johnraff · 2019-06-27 03:16:39

Debian Installer Buster RC 2 release
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-a … 00005.html

hhh · 2019-07-21 05:38:34

I received an email from LXLE Project Administrator Ronnie Whisler...

Ronnie wrote:

Hello,
I am emailing you to ask for your blessing to include/use your themes in
the next release of lxle.
thanks
ronnie

Of course the answer is "yes", we're Open Source and our themes and icons are available via our repo or GitHub. They're all based on other people's work, anyway, I'm a hack. monkey

Very nice of him to formally ask, though, don't you think?

I'll respond tomorrow and give him the go ahead, plus some questions as to which themes he wants to include so I can give him the lowdown on any bugs that I know of.

Anyway, with stevep of MX Linux posting here, Dobbie creating ArchLabs, us being an official Debian Derivative, and now this, BunsenLabs seems to be making an impact.

I occasionally wonder if corenominal keeps tabs on his old pet project, but I doubt it.

I'll update you with the email exchanges. glasses

Dobbie03 · 2019-07-21 06:22:28

Yeah it is nice to be asked. mrgreen of the ArchBang project messaged me the other day to use the AL themes in ArchBang. It's a nice feeling when you get messages like that.

ututo · 2019-07-21 06:24:59

congrats 3h! you've done a great work!

hhh · 2019-07-21 06:29:26

It all starts with a logo that leads to a wallpaper. I can't theme anything without a good wallpaper. That logo is yours. Thanks for sharing it. bows

Recently posted on another thread, Lithium (probably, except horizontal tint2 will still be the default config, and that won't be the default conky, and it needs some other tweaking)...

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hhh · 2019-07-21 06:53:24

Dobbie03 wrote:

Yeah it is nice to be asked. mrgreen of the ArchBang project messaged me the other day to use the AL themes in ArchBang. It's a nice feeling when you get messages like that.

Very cool.

malm · 2019-07-21 12:27:33

@hhh awesome cool

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johnraff · 2019-11-17 05:08:02

Debian Buster 10.2 point release came out yesterday.
https://www.debian.org/News/2019/20191116

THX1138 · 2020-02-14 19:37:45

I love this thread its a great source of news for me, even if the last post was 3 months ago

johnraff · 2020-02-15 01:39:30

Thanks for the poke!

Er... Debian Buster 10.3 came out a week ago. roll
https://www.debian.org/News/2020/20200208

johnraff · 2020-03-20 02:29:48

Not news per se, but a guide to where the Debian stuff comes from:

Official communication channels for Debian
https://www.debian.org/News/2020/20200316

hhh · 2020-03-20 02:33:14

johnraff wrote:

Not news per se...
Official communication channels for Debian
https://www.debian.org/News/2020/20200316

The link literally has News in the URL! tongue News it is.

johnraff · 2020-09-27 01:53:05

Updated Debian 10: 10.6 released

Please note that the point release does not constitute a new version of Debian 10 but only updates some of the packages included. There is no need to throw away old "buster" media. After installation, packages can be upgraded to the current versions using an up-to-date Debian mirror.

Details here:
https://www.debian.org/News/2020/20200926

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