hi Pirate Praveen, all,
On Tue, 13 May 2025, Pirate Praveen wrote:
On Fri, 2 May 2025 21:11:45 +0200 (CEST) Boud Roukema <[email protected]> wrote:
Package: megapixels
Version: 1.8.3-1
Severity: grave
Tags: upstream
Justification: renders package unusable
Does megapixels work on Pinephone Pro or other devices supported by mobian or droidian ?
According to Martijn's table at
https://blog.brixit.nl/megapixels-2-0-progress , PinePhone Pro (PPP)
should work with Megapixels-2.0 - i.e. compiling from the upstream
source, not necessarily Debian - for GPU Mali T860 + OpenGL 3.1 +
OpenGL ES 3.1. This earlier blog from 2023-11-09 explains more about Megapixels-1.* vs Megapixels-2.* development:
https://blog.brixit.nl/megapixels-2-0/
However, I don't see any Debian package for Megapixels-2.0. What we have
is Megapixels-1.* :
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https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/megapixels has 1.8.3-1 as the most recent version
So I think that the question should probably be reworded to:
Does megapixels-1.* work on Pinephone Pro or any of the devices
running Mobian or Droidian ?
If it works on other devices, I think it'd still be useful to ship this with trixie and lower severity to important. As bug is actually gtk 4 dropping support for OpenGL 2.0 and megapixels can work with older gtk versions or devices with OpenGL 3.0 support.
As an ordinary user (non-maintainer) of this package, I see at least
three possibilities to justify downgrading the severity:
(i) The Debian version of megapixels-1.* works on Pinephone Pro or at
least one of the devices running Mobian or Droidian - this would need
people to reliably confirm this; or
(ii) someone proposes (ITP - intent to package) a gtk4-opengl-es2.0
fork (or with some similar name) and gets it accepted into Debian
fast enough before the trixie freeze; and gets 'megapixels'
(i.e. megapixels-1.*) updated to build with that fork and checked to
work on at least one of the Mobian or Droidian supported devices in
time for the freeze; or
(iii) someone packages Megapixels-2.0, e.g. as 'megapixels-2' or as an
'upgrade' for the current 'megapixels' package fast enough before
the freeze; and this new 'mexapixels-2' is confirmed to work on at
least PPP and/or one or more of the Droidian-supported devices.
An alternative (ii.2) could be if Mobian accepted to have 'gtk4-opengl-es2.0' as a Mobian-specific-and-not-Debian-proper package, but my impression
is that that would be seen as contrary to the aim of having as few Mobian-specific-and-not-yet-or-not-ever-Debian packages as possible.
Cheers
Boud
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