Re: moving graphical installer to GTK 3

2021-05-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Simon McVittie (2021-05-17): > My biggest concern about cdebconf and GTK 3 is that it's relying on the > ability to call into GTK APIs from more than one thread. GTK 2 tried to > support this pattern, with gdk_threads_enter() and gdk_threads_leave() > providing locking, but it turned out not to be

Re: moving graphical installer to GTK 3

2021-05-17 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 17 May 2021 at 17:48:45 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > I've checked what would > happen with GTK 3 in cdebconf and cdebconf-gtk-terminal (I had forgotten > about cdebconf-gtk-entropy until writing this reply). I think it's much too late in the Debian 11 cycle to be doing this for Debian 1

Re: Bug#987587: libpango1.0-udeb: hangs the installer in various situations

2021-05-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Simon! Simon McVittie (2021-05-17): > My instinct is that it's far, far too late to be moving to GTK 3 this > cycle, and I'd prefer to get a suitable hack into GTK 2 if we can > find one. We can make it #ifdef DEBIAN_INSTALLER to avoid disrupting > the installed system. If you're happy with f

Bug#947085: cdebconf: Please omit cdebconf-{gtk,newt}-udeb on Ubuntu/i386

2021-05-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 03:24:22PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 12:11:44 -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > In Ubuntu, we are in the process of moving the i386 architecture to a > > compatibility-only layer on amd64. ... We would like to drop [some] udebs > Do I understand c

Re: Bug#987587: libpango1.0-udeb: hangs the installer in various situations

2021-05-17 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 17 May 2021 at 18:12:35 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > And for those not following #debian-boot, I'm finding myself between a > rock and a hard place, as both options (trying to work around the > rendering-related hangs versus switching to GTK 3 at the last moment) > are very far from idea

Re: Bug#988500: unblock: btrfs-progs/5.10.1-2

2021-05-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Sebastian Ramacher (2021-05-17): > > diff -Nru btrfs-progs-5.10.1/debian/changelog > > btrfs-progs-5.10.1/debian/changelog > > --- btrfs-progs-5.10.1/debian/changelog 2021-02-06 00:04:21.0 > > +0100 > > +++ btrfs-progs-5.10.1/debian/changelog 2021-05-14 02:52:17.0 > > +0

Re: Bug#988500: unblock: btrfs-progs/5.10.1-2

2021-05-17 Thread Sebastian Ramacher
Control: tags -1 confirmed d-i On 2021-05-14 11:20:37 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > > Please unblock package btrfs-progs > > The version in Bullseye suffers from a regression that

Re: Bug#987587: libpango1.0-udeb: hangs the installer in various situations

2021-05-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Cyril Brulebois, le lun. 17 mai 2021 18:12:35 +0200, a ecrit: > Additionally, even with all 3 cdebconf-gtk-* packages converted, we > still get libgtk2.0-0-udeb pulled into a netboot-gtk build, because this > package pulls it: > > build/pkg-lists/gtk-common:libgail18-udeb > > Adding debian-ac

Re: Bug#987587: libpango1.0-udeb: hangs the installer in various situations

2021-05-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois (2021-05-17): > > The steps to use GTK 3 in d-i would be: > > > > - convert cdebconf-gtk-udeb from GTK 2 to GTK 3 > > - convert cdebconf-gtk-entropy from GTK 2 to GTK 3 > > - convert cdebconf-gtk-terminal from GTK 2 to GTK 3 and, simultaneously, > > from libvte9-udeb to libvte-2

Re: Bug#987587: libpango1.0-udeb: hangs the installer in various situations

2021-05-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Simon, Simon McVittie (2021-05-13): > Adding a udeb-specific hack in one of those packages seems reasonable, > *if* we can find a suitable hack. > > pango1.0 just has one build shared between the udeb and the full .deb, > so if the hack goes there, a prerequisite would be to build it twice >