Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nick Hastings <nicholaschasti...@gmail.com> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, nicholaschasti...@gmail.com
* Package name : river Version : 0.1.3 Upstream Author : Isaac Freund <m...@isaacfreund.com> * URL : https://github.com/riverwm/river * License : GPL-3.0 Programming Lang: Zig Description : Dynamic tiling Wayland compositor This is the River, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor which includes a flexible runtime configuration. Debian currently seems to have no Wayland compositor that can perform as replacement for the dynamic tiling X11 window mangers like dwm, awesome, xmonad, etc. River is such a Wayland compositor. Although it is still under early development it is already extremely capable and stable. I have already created a package for river. River has one main blocking dependency, zig, for which an ITP exists. However, progress on that package seems to have stalled and as such I have also created a zig package. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=995670 regarding zig. My river and zig packages can be found on mentors.d.n at https://mentors.debian.net/package/river/ and https://mentors.debian.net/package/zig/ I have been using river built with these packages on bullseye (after backporting some dependencies from testing/unstable) as my daily driver for almost two months. Note that a tiling Wayland compositor, sway, already exists in Debian. However, sway is a drop in replacement for i3 and as such provides a very different experience to the dynamic tiling scheme from river. As I understand it, there is no plan for sway to ever be extended to include this sort of functionality. River would uniquely fill a large gap in the existing Wayland compositor landscape in Debian.
