Installability of desktops on arm64
I decided to take a look at what desktops/windows managers were/were not
installable on arm64. Results
mate-desktop-environment: took some pushing but is now installable.
lxde: blocked by
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=753778 , appears to be
some sort of race condition in the "install" second of the
libfm build process. It would be easy enough to add a hack to fix things
up after the fact (that is between running the upstream "install" target
and building the packages) when they break (which doesn't always happen)
but i'm somewhat reluctant to go down that road, what do others think?
xfce4: now installable
gnome-core: blocked by testsuite failure in uhttpmock, maybe worth a
retry. May well be other blockers too.
gnome: in addition to other problems mentioned above blocked by missing
libreoffice. Debian libreoffice package doesn't even try to build on
arm64 (not in architecture list afaict). Ubuntu has libreoffice on arm64
but their versions have been out of sync with debian for some time.
kde-plasma-desktop: blocked by kdepimlibs build failure
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=746864 , there is a
patch in the bug report but it's not clear to me if it's a complete fix
or not (in particular it doesn't seem to do anything to address the "Use
of uninitialized value in numeric eq (==) at /usr/bin/dh_makeshlibs line
251." messages, only fix up the list of symbols. Not sure if those
errors are related to the symbols list, are non-fatal or what
kde-plasma-netbook: as with kde-plasma-desktop
e17: installable
openbox: installable
icewm: installable
fluxbox: installable
wmii: installable
awesome: installable
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