• Bug#1059446: libvte-dev: Please consider enabling sixel support

    From Simon McVittie@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jul 14 13:40:01 2025
    Control: forwarded -1 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/issues/253
    Control: tags -1 + wontfix

    On Fri, 29 Dec 2023 at 16:43:10 -0500, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
    On Mon, Dec 25, 2023 at 2:27 PM Matthias Geiger <[email protected]> wrote:
    please consider enabling sixel support for libvte. At the moment this
    prevents images from rendering in vte-based terminals. While it is still
    experimental I think this could be enabled so users can test the feature
    and report possible bugs.

    It's not only "experimental" but upstream keeps removing the WIP sixel >feature before finalizing each new stable release major series.

    I think we would be doing our users a disservice to be enabling a
    feature that upstream specifically does not think is ready. If you would
    like to test sixel rendering and help to fix its bugs, I would recommend compiling a local libvte from source and doing development there.

    https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/issues/253#note_1872962 has a
    description of the known unresolved issues in the sixel feature. Until
    upstream believes those issues have been resolved, I don't think we
    should be touching this in Debian (hence the wontfix tag). The packaging
    of upstream software in Debian is a place to do integration and QA, not
    major feature development, and the only sustainable way to add features
    is "upstream first".

    smcv

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